The Italian Version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Personality Disorders Scales (IIP-47): Psychometric Properties and Clinical Usefulness as a Screening Measure

Ubbiali, Alessandro; Chiorri, Carlo; Donati, Deborah

doi:10.1521/pedi.2011.25.4.528

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“…The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems -47 (IIP-47; Italian version Ubbiali et al, 2011; α = 0.93) is a 47-item self-report scale which assesses interpersonal problems, and consists of five subscales: Interpersonal Sensitivity, Interpersonal Ambivalence, Aggression, Need for Social Approval, and Lack of Sociability.…”

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Metacognition as a Predictor of Improvements in Personality Disorders

Carcione¹,

Riccardi²,

Bilotta³

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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Personality Disorders (PDs) are particularly hard to treat and treatment drop-out rates are high. Several authors have agreed that psychotherapy is more successful when it focuses on the core of personality pathology. For this reason, therapists dealing with PDs need to understand the psychopathological variables that characterize this pathology and exactly what contributes to maintaining psychopathological processes. Moreover, several authors have noted that one key problem that characterizes all PDs is an impairment in understanding mental states – here termed metacognition – which could also be responsible for therapy failures. Unfortunately, a limited number of studies have investigated the role of mentalization in the process of change during psychotherapy. In this paper, we assume that poor metacognition corresponds to a core element of the general pathology of personality, impacts a series of clinical variables, generates symptoms and interpersonal problems, and causes treatment to be slower and less effective. We explored whether changes in metacognition predicted an improvement among different psychopathological variables characterizing PDs; 193 outpatients were treated at the Third Center of Cognitive Psychotherapy in Rome, Italy, and followed a structured path tailored for the different psychopathological variables that emerged from a comprehensive psychodiagnostic assessment that considered patients’ symptoms, metacognitive abilities, interpersonal relationships, personality psychopathology, and global functioning. The measurements were repeated after a year of treatment. The results showed that changes in metacognitive abilities predicted improvements in the analyzed variables.

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Metacognition as a Predictor of Improvements in Personality Disorders

Carcione¹,

Riccardi²,

Bilotta³

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…By dividing the two areas of personality “temperament” from “character” it combines person-centered aspects of general vulnerability and environment-centered aspects of dysfunctional influences and allows the evaluation of an individual’s current maturity in terms of impaired personality functioning. Thus, Cloninger’s model is ideally suited for investigating PD-related issues [59-62]. With the JTCI-R-family (Junior Temperament and Character Inventory) the concept can be assessed by questionnaire in adolescents (12–18 years) equivalent to the revised adult version TCI R with excellent results for reliabilities and validity [63,64].…”

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Assessment of identity development and identity diffusion in adolescence - Theoretical basis and psychometric properties of the self-report questionnaire AIDA

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Foelsch

Schlüter-Müller

et al. 2012

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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BackgroundIn the continuing revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) “identity” is integrated as a central diagnostic criterion for personality disorders (self-related personality functioning). According to Kernberg, identity diffusion is one of the core elements of borderline personality organization. As there is no elaborated self-rating inventory to assess identity development in healthy and disturbed adolescents, we developed the AIDA (Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence) questionnaire to assess this complex dimension, varying from “Identity Integration” to “Identity Diffusion”, in a broad and substructured way and evaluated its psychometric properties in a mixed school and clinical sample.MethodsTest construction was deductive, referring to psychodynamic as well as social-cognitive theories, and led to a special item pool, with consideration for clarity and ease of comprehension. Participants were 305 students aged 12–18 attending a public school and 52 adolescent psychiatric inpatients and outpatients with diagnoses of personality disorders (N = 20) or other mental disorders (N = 32). Convergent validity was evaluated by covariations with personality development (JTCI 12–18 R scales), criterion validity by differences in identity development (AIDA scales) between patients and controls.ResultsAIDA showed excellent total score (Diffusion: α = .94), scale (Discontinuity: α = .86; Incoherence: α = .92) and subscale (α = .73-.86) reliabilities. High levels of Discontinuity and Incoherence were associated with low levels in Self Directedness, an indicator of maladaptive personality functioning. Both AIDA scales were significantly different between PD-patients and controls with remarkable effect sizes (d) of 2.17 and 1.94 standard deviations.ConclusionAIDA is a reliable and valid instrument to assess normal and disturbed identity in adolescents. Studies for further validation and for obtaining population norms are in progress and may provide insight in the relevant aspects of identity development in differentiating specific psychopathology and therapeutic focus and outcome.

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“…The IIP-47 also provides separate scores on the five subscales, with the scores on the “interpersonal sensitivity” subscale being particularly relevant for our study. The IIP-47 has shown very good psychometric properties [22], as did the Italian version [23]. In the present study, its internal consistency was excellent, with Cronbach’s α = 0.98.…”

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“…The IIP-47 [22, 23] is a measure of chronic interpersonal problems associated with personality disorders. It consists of 47 items, with five subscales: interpersonal sensitivity, interpersonal ambivalence, aggression, need for social approval, and lack of sociability.…”

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Preliminary Validation of the Interpersonal Dysphoria Model of Borderline Personality Disorder

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Background: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most puzzling psychiatric disorders. In order to improve its understanding and management, we have recently proposed an interpersonal dysphoria model that emphasizes the key role of the complex emotional state of dysphoria in BPD. The purpose of this study was to test the interpersonal dysphoria model using a structural equation modeling analysis. Sampling and Methods: The sample consisted of 105 patients with BPD and 105 healthy controls. A total of five self-report instruments and three semistructured interviews were administered to the participants. Results: The best-fitting structural model fit the data well in the BPD sample. Background dysphoria and negative interpersonal disposition were significant predictors of situational dysphoria, which in turn was a significant predictor of various symptoms of BPD. This model differs from the originally proposed one in terms of impaired empathy not being a component of negative interpersonal disposition and organizing and disorganizing BPD symptoms being replaced by interpersonal (abandonment fears, angry outbursts, and stormy relations) and affective (affective shifts and emptiness) symptoms. Conclusions: Although some revision was needed, the findings provide support to the proposed model, which needs to be further tested in a larger sample of individuals with BPD.

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The Italian Version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Personality Disorders Scales (IIP-47): Psychometric Properties and Clinical Usefulness as a Screening Measure

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

Metacognition as a Predictor of Improvements in Personality Disorders

Metacognition as a Predictor of Improvements in Personality Disorders

Assessment of identity development and identity diffusion in adolescence - Theoretical basis and psychometric properties of the self-report questionnaire AIDA

Preliminary Validation of the Interpersonal Dysphoria Model of Borderline Personality Disorder

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