scholarly journals Assessment of identity disturbance: Factor structure and validation of the Personality Structure Questionnaire in an Italian sample.

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. e27-e35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Berrios ◽  
Stephen Kellett ◽  
Christina Fiorani ◽  
Marisa Poggioli
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Identity Disturbance ◽  
Disturbance Factor ◽  
Italian Sample

Assessment of Personality Functioning in Adolescence: Development of the Adolescent Personality Structure Questionnaire

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112098815
Author(s):  
Ilaria M. A. Benzi ◽  
Andrea Fontana ◽  
Rossella Di Pierro ◽  
Marco Perugini ◽  
Pietro Cipresso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Total N ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Body Development ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Sample Testing ◽  
Adolescent Personality

Adolescence is a crucial period for the development of personality and its dysfunctions. In this regard, it is essential to evaluate the nature and degree of maladaptive personality functioning. However, measures currently available present some limitations, mainly being adaptations from adult’s tailored instruments and length. Moreover, no instrument considers the crucial dimensions related to body development and sexuality. This contribution presents data on the Adolescent Personality Structure Questionnaire (APS-Q) development, a self-report measure to capture core aspects of personality functioning in adolescence while being agile and reliable. On two large samples of adolescents (total N = 1,664), we investigated the psychometric properties of the APS-Q. We explored its factor structure and construct and incremental validity in the first sample, testing specific associations with existing measures of severity of personality pathology, maladaptive personality traits, and psychological distress. In the second sample, we confirmed its factor structure, assessing gender and age invariance. Overall, our findings support the APS-Q’s validity as a reliable and useful measure to assess personality functioning. Moreover, the APS-Q highlighted developmentally vital dimensions such as self-functioning (encompassing mental and bodily changes and considering the dimension of sexuality), interpersonal functioning (discriminating the dimensions of family and peers), and emotion regulation.

Personality Structure Questionnaire--Italian Version

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Berrios ◽  
Stephen Kellett ◽  
Christina Fiorani ◽  
Marisa Poggioli
Keyword(s):  
Personality Structure ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Italian Version

scholarly journals Lower cognitive reappraisal capacity is related to impairments in attachment and personality structure in poly-drug use: an fMRI study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hiebler-Ragger ◽  
C. M. Perchtold-Stefan ◽  
H. F. Unterrainer ◽  
J. Fuchshuber ◽  
K. Koschutnig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Emotional Strain ◽  
Drug Use Disorder

AbstractInsecure attachment, impaired personality structure and impaired emotion regulation figure prominently in substance use disorders. While negative emotions can trigger drug-use and relapse, cognitive reappraisal may reduce emotional strain by promoting changes in perspective. In the present study, we explored behavioral and neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal in poly-drug use disorder by testing individuals’ capability to generate cognitive reappraisals for aversive events (Reappraisal Inventiveness Test). 18 inpatients with poly-drug use disorder and 16 controls completed the Adult Attachment Scale, the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Wonderlic Personnel Test, and the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis Structure Questionnaire, as well as two versions of the Reappraisal Inventiveness Test (during fMRI and outside the lab). Compared to controls, polydrug inpatients reported impaired personality structure, attachment and emotion regulation abilities. In the Reappraisal Inventiveness Test, poly-drug inpatients were less flexible and fluent in generating reappraisals for anger-eliciting situations. Corresponding to previous brain imaging evidence, cognitive reappraisal efforts of both groups were reflected in activation of left frontal regions, particularly left superior and middle frontal gyri and left supplemental motor areas. However, no group differences in neural activation patterns emerged. This suggests that despite cognitive reappraisal impairments on a behavioral level, neural reflections of these deficits in poly-drug use disorder might be more complex.

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