Psychometric evaluation of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory
Psychometric evaluation of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory
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DOI:
10.1521/pedi.16.3.255.22539
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发表时间:
2002-06-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Smith, M
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作者:
Huprich, SK;Sanford, K;Smith, M
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory (DPDI; Huprich, Margrett, Barthelemy, & Fine, 1996). The DPDI was found to have strong internal consistency in both an undergraduate and a veteran, psychiatric outpatient population. The DPDI had significant, positive correlations with other measures of depressive personality, supporting its convergent validity. These relationships remained even after controlling for state-like depression, suggesting that the DPDI has incremental validity. The DPDI also significantly predicted scores on measures of interpersonal loss, even after controlling for state-like depression, suggesting that the DPDI has good construct validity. In support of discriminant validity, the DPDI was more correlated with another measure of depressive personality than it was with measures of other personality disorders. Finally, the DPDI had strong diagnostic efficiency statistics: (a) Sensitivity =.82, (b) Specificity =.80, (c) Positive Predictive Power =.75, (d) Negative Predictive Power =.86, and (e) Overall Diagnostic Power =.81. It appears that the DPDI has good psychometric properties.