The SAPI, an acronym for South African Personality Inventory, is a project that aims to develop the indigenous personality measure for all 11 official language groups in South Africa.

The SAPI project has two stages. The first stage is conceptual and attempts to unravel the implicit personality structure, as reflected in natural language, in speakers of all 11 official language groups in South Africa. The second part of the study is quantitative and aims at developing and testing instruments in each of the language groups, based on taxonomy derived in the first stage for the 11 groups.

The workshop focussed on inputs from language and cultural experts of different institutions regarding the linguistic and cultural appropriateness of the SAPI items.