The Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short-Form: Relationship of Personality Disorders Schemata with Entitlement and Dysfunctional Thoughts

Abstract

The Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short Form (PBQ-SF), designed to assess dysfunctional beliefs based on Beck et al.'s (1990) cognitive formulations of personality disorders, has received little attention in research. The present study assessed the construct validity of the PBQ-SF by exploring its relations with conceptually relevant scales-the Psychological Entitlement Scale and the Warpy Thoughts Entitlement, Relationship, and Achievement subscales. Participants were 228 college students. Analyses using ipsatized scores indicated that dysfunctional entitlement beliefs were highly characteristic of individuals who endorsed antisocial and narcissistic beliefs, but minimally characteristic of individuals endorsing dependent beliefs. Dysfunctional relationship beliefs were least characteristic of individuals who endorsed narcissistic and schizoid beliefs, but most characteristic of those who endorsed borderline beliefs. Dysfunctional achievement schemata were most characteristic of individuals who endorsed obsessive-compulsive beliefs. Consistent with Butler et al.'s findings, our results support the convergent validity of PBQ-SF average score as a measure of general dysfunctional beliefs.

Rasgos patológicos y creencias disfuncionales en los trastornos de la personalidad

“…La estructura del pbq-sf también se ha explorado utilizando otros métodos distintos al análisis factorial. Por ejemplo, Kumar, Ryan y Wagner (2012) utilizaron el Guttman´s Smallest Space Analysis, y posteriormente evaluaron su validez de constructo (Ryan, Kumar y Wagner, 2014) al examinar la relación de este cuestionario con dos escalas de evaluación: Psychological Entitlement Scale (Campbell, Bonacci, Shelton, Exline y Bushman, 2004) y Warpy Thoughts Scale (Parslow, Christensen, Griffiths y Groves, 2006).…”

Beck’s Personality Beliefs Questionnaire: Evidence of Validity and Reliability of the Russian Version

“…The PBQ did not become as popular in clinical practice as MCMI or MMPI, but is a widespread practical tool that has been translated into many languages including Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Argentine Spanish, and Turkish (e.g., Aktas, Guriz, Alpaslan, Cavdar, & Orsel, 2015;Moretti, Trógolo, Dominguez-Lara, Conn, & Medrano, 2018;Hernández, Darío, Vasquez, & Semenova, 2015;Zawadski, Popiel, Praglowska, & Newman, 2017) and is used not only in clinical samples but also in healthy controls (Ryan, Kumar, & Wagner, 2015;Thimm, Jordan, & Bach, 2016), patients with functional and somatic illnesses (Taymur et al, 2015) and people with drug addictions (Albein-Urios, Martinez-González, & Lozano, 2014). Some reviews consider the PBQ as a relevant instrument for DSM-V as well (e.g., Bhar, Beck, & Butler, 2012).…”