Inter‐observer and test‐retest reliability of the Italian version of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile in two groups of psychiatric patients

Turrina, Cesare; Siani, Roberta; Regini, C.; Campana, Angela Nogueira Neves Betanho; Bologna, R.; Siciliani, Orazio

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb10649.x

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“…The results indicated that judges with more training in psychodynamic psychotherapy obtained better reliability [5]. Similar results have also been found by Turrina et al [7], who found that interviewers with better training and more psychodynamic experience obtained better reliability. In the present study, the interviewers had a great deal of clinical experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy, whereas the reliability judge had not.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The results of the present study, as well as those of other KAPP reliability studies, indicate that this is the case [6, 7, 8]. In the present study, neither the interviewers nor the reliability judge worked in the setting were the KAPP was constructed, nor were they trained by its developers.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…[5]. Research has also indicated that modest training in the use of the KAPP, even if it is not conducted by the developers of the instrument, allows interviewers and judges to attain high interrater reliability [6, 7, 8]. However, in a study of women with alcohol problems, Haver et al [15] obtained lower interrater reliability on some subscales than what has generally been found.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…High interrater reliability has been obtained in a sample consisting of normals and patients with various psychiatric disorders (neuroses, affective disorders, schizophrenia, and personality disorders) [6], in a mixed psychiatric sample [7], and in a sample of depressive patients [8]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…The instrument consists of 18 subscales; the first 17 measure specific character traits, and the last one refers to character as organization. The results of the various studies with the KAPP indicate that the instrument has interdisciplinary and cross-cultural reliability [5, 6, 7, 8], that it is useful for assessing fairly stable character traits [6, 9], that it can discriminate between patients with and without psychiatric psychopathology [10], and that it has predictive [11, 12] and construct validity [10, 13, 14]. …”

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Reliability of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) among Patients with and without Psychoactive Substance Abuse Disorders

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et al. 1998

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Background: The Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) is a rating instrument, based on psychoanalytic theory, that assesses different aspects of character from clinical interviews. The aim of the present study was to examine interrater reliability of the KAPP in a sample of patients with and without psychoactive substance abuse disorders, using interviewers and a reliability judge who had not been trained by the developers of the instrument. Methods: The sample comprised 47 consecutive patients with and without psychoactive substance abuse disorders, who were referred to an outpatient psychotherapy unit specializing in the treatment of substance abuse and dependence. The two interviewers and the reliability judge had not been trained by the developers of the KAPP, and they worked outside the setting where it was constructed. Results: The intraclass correlations were satisfactory for the total sample (mean 0.84, median 0.89, range 0.62–0.95), as well as for various subsamples, such as males and females, and patients with and without substance abuse disorders. Conclusions: The results show that interviewers and a reliability judge who had not been trained by the developers of the KAPP can attain high interrater reliability in a sample of patients with substance abuse disorders. Some recommendations for conducting KAPP interviews are given.

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confidence: 99%

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Reliability of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) among Patients with and without Psychoactive Substance Abuse Disorders

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Personality traits predicting long‐term adjustment after surgery for ulcerative colitis

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Very few studies have examined the relationship between personality traits and long-term postoperative psychosocial adjustment. In a sample of 46 patients, we examined the relation between personality traits before pelvic pouch surgery for ulcerative colitis and psychosocial adjustment seven years postoperatively, controlling for the effects of surgical functional outcome. The Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) was used for personality assessment. Surgical functional outcome scales and the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale were also used. As assessed by the KAPP, poor frustration tolerance, long-standing preoperative problems in sexual functioning, perfectionistic body ideals, and lack of alexithymia predicted poorer postoperative long-term psychosocial adjustment in the areas of health concerns, sexuality, family relations, and psychological distress. Surgical functional outcome itself was a poor predictor of long-term adjustment. The results indicate that it may be beneficial to take personality factors into account in preoperative assessment.

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Baseline personality characteristics of responders to 6-month psychotherapy in eating disorders: Preliminary data

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Inter‐observer and test‐retest reliability of the Italian version of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile in two groups of psychiatric patients

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Reliability of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) among Patients with and without Psychoactive Substance Abuse Disorders

Reliability of the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) among Patients with and without Psychoactive Substance Abuse Disorders

Personality traits predicting long‐term adjustment after surgery for ulcerative colitis

Baseline personality characteristics of responders to 6-month psychotherapy in eating disorders: Preliminary data

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