The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64) as a Screening Measure for Avoidant Personality Disorder

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leising ◽  
Diana Rehbein ◽  
Julia Eckardt
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Accuracy ◽  
Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder ◽  
Screening Measure ◽  
Inventory Of Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Single Scale ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Good Diagnostic Accuracy

We investigated the usefulness of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64) as a screening measure for avoidant personality disorder (AVPD), and for personality disorder (PD) in general. A total of 159 female participants filled out the IIP-64 and then took part in a structured clinical interview for the DSM-IV personality disorders (SCID-II). Interview-based diagnoses of AVPD (N = 21) were predicted with good diagnostic accuracy by a single scale (socially inhibited) of the IIP-64, whereas the presence of any kind of PD (N = 37) was more accurately predicted by the IIP-64 total score. The IIP-64 not only assesses general personality pathology, but may also be used in screening for specific kinds of personality pathology, which have greater clinical relevance.

scholarly journals Personality Pathology and Spouses' Moment-to-Moment Interpersonal Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Assaad ◽  
Sean Lane ◽  
Christopher J. Hopwood ◽  
C. Emily Durbin ◽  
Katherine M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Interpersonal Behaviors ◽  
Dynamics Method ◽  
Over Time

We assessed the association of personality pathology with romantic couples' observed interpersonal behaviors. Couples engaged in four discussion tasks, after which observers used the Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics method to continuously rate each participant's dominance and warmth over the course of each discussion. Using these ratings, we derived indices of average behaviors and changes in behaviors over the course of discussions. Generally, results indicated that the more personality pathology either spouse reported, the colder husbands were on average, and the colder they became toward their wives over time. However, personality disorder symptoms and overall interpersonal problems were largely unassociated with wives' behaviors. Results also indicated that the more dominance-related problems husbands and wives reported, the more dominantly and coldly they behaved, the more submissive or withdrawn their partners were, and the colder wives became over time; and the more warmth problems wives reported, the more dominantly, they behaved.

Personality traits in social phobia

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Marteinsdottir ◽  
T. Furmark ◽  
M. Tillfors ◽  
M. Fredrikson ◽  
L. Ekselius
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Indirect Aggression ◽  
Normative Sample ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Axis I ◽  
Dsm Iv

SummaryThe purpose was to assess personality traits in subjects with a DSM-IV diagnosis of social phobia. Thirty-two subjects were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV for Axes I and II disorders (SCID I and II). Personality traits were assessed by means of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). Current and lifetime axis I co-morbidity was diagnosed in 28% and 53% of the subjects, respectively. In total, 59% had at least one personality disorder and 47% were diagnosed with an avoidant personality disorder.The social phobics scored significantly higher than a Swedish normative sample on the KSP measuring anxiety proneness, irritability, detachment, and indirect aggression but lower on the scales for socialisation and social desirability. The presence as compared to absence of avoidant personality disorder in the social phobics was associated with significantly higher psychic anxiety and inhibition of aggression. In addition, symptom severity was higher in social phobics with an avoidant personality disorder. Generally, the results support the view that social phobia and avoidant personality disorder reflect different aspects of a social anxiety spectrum.

scholarly journals Diagnosis and classification of personality disorder: difficulties, their resolution and implications for practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaydip Sarkar ◽  
Conor Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Diagnosis And Classification ◽  
Axis I ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Current Systems

SummaryThere are many difficulties associated with the diagnostic guidelines for personality disorder in the current international classificatory systems such as ICD–10 and DSM–IV. These lead not only to significant overlap with DSM Axis I disorders, resulting in high rates of diagnoses of comorbidities and multiple personality disorders, but also to lack of adequate capture of core personality pathology. The current classifications are also unhelpful in treatment selection, presumably the prime reason for assessing individuals in the first place. In this article we highlight various deficits and inadequacies related to the nosology of the current systems and suggest some strategies for dealing with these. We offer an integrated model of assessing and diagnosing personality disorders. We attempt to demonstrate how using a more integrated approach minimises or even eliminates some of the key problems highlighted in the current systems.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Problems in Borderline Personality Disorder: Associations with Mentalizing, Emotion Regulation, and Impulsiveness

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Euler ◽  
Tobias Nolte ◽  
Matthew Constantinou ◽  
Julia Griem ◽  
P. Read Montague ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Inventory Of Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Path Models

Interpersonal problems are a core symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study investigated the relationship between emotion dysregulation, impulsiveness, and impaired mentalizing in the context of predicting interpersonal problems in BPD. A total of 210 patients with BPD completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ), and Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-32). The authors conducted three path models, with either mentalizing, emotion regulation, or impulsiveness as the exogenous variable. Emotion dysregulation and attentional impulsiveness predicted interpersonal problems directly, whereas hypomentalizing predicted interpersonal problems only indirectly throughout emotion dysregulation and attentional impulsiveness. The results suggest that these domains contribute significantly to interpersonal problems in BPD. Moreover, hypomentalizing might affect on interpersonal problems via its effect on impulsiveness and emotion regulation. The authors argue that focusing on emotion regulation and mentalizing in BPD treatments might have interlinked beneficial effects on interpersonal problems.

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