“…Participants respond on a six-point Likert scale (from ''agree strongly'' to ''disagree strongly''), with Barriga & Gibbs, 1996;Barriga, Hawkins & Camelia, 2008;Nas, Brugman & Koops, 2008) for adolescent samples within various contexts. The research on the HIT for adult groups is, to our knowledge, so far limited to a few studies within correctional facilities (Hubbard & Pealer, 2009;Liau et al, 2004) and none has examined the reliability and validity of the HIT for adult groups. Spitzer, Williams, Gibbon and First, 1991) is a self-report questionnaire designed to cover the underlying criteria for the DSM-III-R personality disorders and to provide screening of individuals who require particularly detailed diagnostic assessments (Spitzer, Williams, Gibbon & First, 1989).…”