PEER ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND PATHOLOGY

描述（申请人摘要）： 人格障碍（PD）通常侧重于自我报告的措施，甚至 尽管有些患有PD的人可能无法现实地看待自己， 或者不愿意报告不受欢迎的特征。 亲密的同事可能 提供关于PD性状存在的重要信息。 对等 提名是可靠和有效的评估程序，可适用于 以研究为目的的PD研究。 拟议的研究将集中于 定义十种DSM-IV人格障碍的特征， 在非临床样本中从自我和他人收集的信息 成年男女。 这项研究旨在实现三个主要目标： 1)确定以下方面的具体一致和差异： 自我报告和同行评估在测量的特点 这些疾病的特点，2）比较自我和 其他报告，以预测PD的存在（由结构化 对一部分受试者进行临床访谈），以及3） 构建新的自我报告量表，能够更好地预测同伴 病理特征的评估。 我们将筛选出 3,000名受试者（1,500名美国空军新兵和1,500名大学生; 每组各一半雄性）。 在第一个评估阶段，每个受试者将 完成100项同行提名清单（PNI），描述 非适应性和适应性人格量表（SNAP; Clark，1990）。 第二个评估阶段将涉及诊断 采访了15%的受试者（150人被评为最高的， PNI上的同龄人，150名在SNAP中被自己评为最高的人， 随机抽取150人）。 面试将在以下时间进行： 由经过培训的临床医生进行的DSM-IV人格结构化访谈（SIDP）， 对预筛选程序中的所有信息一无所知。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): Assessment procedures for the personality disorders (PDs) typically focus on self-report measures, even though some people with PDs may be unable to view themselves realistically or unwilling to report socially undesirable traits. Close associates may provide important information regarding the presence of PD traits. Peer nomination is reliable and valid assessment procedure that can be adapted to the study of PDs for research purposes. The proposed study will focus on characteristic features which define ten DSM-IV personality disorders using information collected from both self and others in non-clinical samples of adult men and women. The study is designed to accomplish three major goals: 1) to identify specific areas of agreement and discrepancy between self-report and peer assessment in the measurement of characteristic features of these disorders, 2) to compare the ability of the self- and other-reports to predict the presence of PDs (as determined by structured clinical interviews conducted with a subset of the subjects), and 3) to construct new self-report scales that are better able to predict peer assessments of pathological traits. We will screen an initial sample of 3,000 subjects (1,500 US Air Force recruits and 1,500 university students; half of each group male). In the first assessment phase, each subject will complete a 100-item peer nomination inventory (PNI) describing members of their group, and the Schedule of Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP; Clark, 1990). The second assessment phase will involve diagnostic interviews with 15% of these subjects (150 who were rated highest by their peers on the PNI, 150 who were rated highest by themselves of the SNAP, and 150 selected at random). Interviews will be conducted following the Structured Interview for DSM-IV Personality (SIDP) by trained clinicians who are blind to all information from the pre-screening procedure.