Journal of Personality Assessment · 2007 · 19 citations · 31 references
Social SciencesPsychiatryPsychologyAbnormal PsychologyPsychiatric AssessmentPsychometricsAdult PsychopathologyPersonality AssessmentPersonality DisordersPsychological AssessmentPsychological TestingPsychopathology AssessmentBorderline Personality FeaturesBorderline Personality TraitsClinical Personality AssessmentClinical PsychometricsPersonality Disorders DiagnosisPersonality Trait MeasurementPrevalence Of Mental DisordersPsychiatric Rating Scales
Abstract In this study, we examined how patients diagnosed with borderline pathology (BP) would respond on the Personality Assessment Inventory (Morey, 1991 Zimmerman, M., Rothschild, L. and Chelminski, I. 2005. The prevalence of DSM-IV personality disorders in psychiatric outpatients.. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162 1911-1918.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) Borderline (BOR) scales in relation to patients without BP pathology. In addition, we examined whether the PAI BOR scales would be related to variables on the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS; Hilsenroth, Stein, & Pinsker, 2004 Blais, M. and Bistis, K. 2004. “Projective assessment of borderline psychopathology.”. In Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment Edited by: Hilsenroth, M. J. and Segal, D. L. Vol. 2, 485–499. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [Google Scholar]; Westen, 1995 Westen, D. Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale: Q-sort for projective stories (SCORS-Q). Unpublished manuscript. Cambridge, MA.: Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School. [Google Scholar]) derived from early memory narratives. Results indicate that outpatients with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(4th ed. [DSM-IV]; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) diagnosis of BP scored significantly higher on the PAI BOR Total (BOR-Total) score, Identity Problems, and Self-Harm scales in comparison to a Non-BP clinical sample. The overall correct classification rate for the presence or absence of BP using the BOR Total scale (T ≥ 70) was 73%. In addition, there were several significant relationships between dimensional PAI BOR scales and the presence versus absence of DSM-IVBP. Moreover, both the BOR-Total and Affect Instability scales were significantly related to the SCORS variable Complexity of Representations. We provide clinical examples to illustrate these research findings in an applied manner.
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