Introduction to a New Clinical Applications Section: Positive Response Sets in Personality Assessment.

The article offers a study that highlights the positive response sets, or the tendency for clients to produce data that systematically biased in a positive or healthy direction. It discusses the susceptibility of the increasingly popular personality inventory for DSM–5 to positive response sets and generate indexes for assessing them. It mentions the maladaptive personality traits, in clinical settings and addresses the psychometric questions.