Revision of the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory

Abstract

Estudos de Psicologia I Campinas I 34(2) I 219-231 I abril -junho 2017 (Média = 25,56;70), sendo a maior parte do sexo feminino (N = 159; 74,3%

Development and Diagnostic Accuracy of the Screening of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory

“…Based on the psychometric adequacy of IDCP and IDCP-2, including discriminative ability of patients with PDs (IDCP; Carvalho, & Primi, 2015;Carvalho, Primi, & Stone, 2014;Carvalho, Oliveira Filho, Pessotto, & Bortolotti, 2014;and IDCP-2;e.g., Carvalho, & Arruda, 2016;Carvalho , Pianoswski, & Miguel, 2015;Carvalho, & Sette, 2015;2017;Carvalho, Souza, & Primi, 2014), this study focused on the development and verification of the diagnostic accuracy of a screening version of the IDCP, presenting satisfactory results that may meet the Brazilian gap of instruments available for an initial identification of individuals potentially diagnosed with PDs. Thus, based on a psychometric design that focuses more on the discriminative capacity and less on the internal structure of the set of items (Buchanan, 1994;Gregory, 2013), the data suggest diagnostic accuracy in the identification of patients with PDs for a set of 15 items primarily related to imbalances in interpersonal relationships, psychological distress experience, and self-neglect.…”

“…Thus, we sought items that contributed to the prediction of people belonging to clinical groups, emphasizing the weight and significance of items in logistical regression analyses, and also which items showed greater difference in scores between the groups. It is noteworthy that partial analyzes were included (i.e., items from the original IDCP kept in the IDCP-2 and items that make up the Mood Instability dimension) in order to support these items in the final selection of the screening, given the quality of the items kept in the IDCP-2 (e.g., Carvalho, & Arruda, 2016;Carvalho, Pianowski, & Miguel, 2015;Carvalho, & Sette, 2015;2017;Carvalho, Sette, Capitão, & Primi, 2014;Carvalho, Souza, & Primi, 2014) and in the suitability of the content of Mood Instability in the identification of symptoms of PDs (e.g., Abela et al, 2015;Carvalho & Primi, 2016). The first group of analyses, using 147 items of the IDCP, pointed out a group of 31 items as more discriminative.…”

“…It is noteworthy that for the first regression analysis, with all the items, only the forward method (wald) was used, since many predictor variables were inserted. The analysis covering only the 61 items kept between the IDCP and its revised version, IDCP-2, was performed considering that (a) the items kept in the revised version are empirically those which presented higher psychometric adequacy in previous studies (e.g., Carvalho & Arruda, 2016;Carvalho, Pianowski, & Miguel, 2015;Carvalho, & Sette, 2015;, 2017;Carvalho, Sette, Capitão, & Primi, 2014;Carvalho, Souza, & Primi, 2014) and (b) despite some items shared with the analysis covering the IDCP in general, it is a different grouping of predictive variables. Similarly, in the third group of analyses, only the 27 items composing the Mood Instability dimension were used, since data presented in previous studies suggested this dimension as subjacent to pathological personality functioning in general (e.g., Abela, Carvalho, Cho, & Yazigi, 2015;Carvalho, & Primi, 2016;.…”

Investigation of the clinical functioning of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2 criticism avoidance dimension

“…Psychometric properties of the dimensions, evidence of validity (based on the internal structure and external variables) and reliability indices (for internal consistency) have been shown to be appropriate in studies that provide a basis for the IDCP-2. 19,[23][24][25][26][27] For the present study, we used the revised version of the criticism avoidance dimension, 19 which contains 18…”

Clinical cut‐off point for the Distrust dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2 (IDCP‐2)

“…Dimensions are Dependency, Aggressiveness, Mood Instability, Eccentricity, Attention Seeking, Distrust, Grandiosity, Isolation, Avoidance of Criticism, Self‐sacrifice, Conscientiousness, and Inconsequence. A number of studies verifying the psychometric qualities of the instrument is published (e.g., Carvalho & Sette, ; Carvalho & Silva, ; Carvalho & Pianowski, ; Carvalho, Souza & Primi, ), and new efforts have been undertaken to find clinical cutoff for each revised dimension (e.g., Carvalho, Pianowski & Hauck Filho, ; Carvalho, Sette & Capitão, ). The present study aims to establish a clinical cutoff for the Distrust dimension, using item‐level evaluation procedures, and hence, more evidence of the psychometric properties of the instrument.…”