Validity Evidences for the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory in Outpatient Psychiatric Sample

• Main Authors: Roberta Katz Abela, Lucas de Francisco Carvalho, Sabrina Jisun Myung Cho, Latife Yazigi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-08-01
• Series: Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)
• Subjects: inventario de personalidad; rasgos de personalidad; trastornos de la personalidad; evaluación psicológica; tests psicológicos
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-863X2015000200221&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1982-4327

The Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory (IDCP) was developed in Brazil for the assessment of pathological personality traits. This study aimed to seek validity evidence for the dimensions of IDCP based on external criteria, psychiatric diagnosis. We examined the profile in IDCP of 105 psychotherapy outpatients, previously diagnosed with personality disorders. The profiles were compared with the profile of the normative non-clinical sample and we conducted the repeated measures analysis to investigate whether the IDCP is able to discriminate consistent profiles for different diagnoses and compared the general population. The results suggest validity evidence based on external criteria for the IDCP dimensions and points to the clinical effectiveness of the instrument.