Revision of the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory

CARVALHO, Lucas de Francisco; SETTE, Catarina Possenti

doi:10.1590/1982-02752017000200004

Thematic section: Psychological assessment • Estud. psicol. (Campinas) 34 (2) • June 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02752017000200004 linkcopy

Revision of the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory

Revisão da dimensão Evitação a Críticas do Inventário Dimensional Clínico da Personalidade

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

The aim of this study was to revise the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and to investigate its psychometric properties. The participants included 213 subjects aged 18 to 69 years (Mean = 25.56; Standard Deviation = 8.70), mostly females (N = 159; 74.3%). All participants answered the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and the Brazilian versions of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. A total of 470 new items were developed and selected using content analysis, and 39 items composed the final version. Based on the parallel analysis and factor analysis, three interpretable factors were found. The internal consistency coefficients showed adequate levels of reliability ranging between 0.80 and 0.91 for the factors. Additionally, expected correlations were found between the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and the other tests. The present study demonstrated the adequacy of the dimension revised to assess pathological characteristics of the avoidant personality functioning.

Keywords:
Personality disorders; Personality traits; Psychometrics.

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[TFN1] Note: SWAP: Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure; PID-5: Personality Inventory for DSM-5; DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition.

Source	Construct	Developed	Pre-selected	Selected
DSM-5	Identity			010	02	08
	Self-direction			009	02	09
	Intimacy			010	01	06
	Withdrawal			010	02	05
	Intimacy Avoidance			009	02	02
	Anhedonia			009	02	02
PID-5	Anxiety			010	01	00
	Anhedonia			072	15	02
	Anxiety			063	14	01
	Withdrawal			091	14	01
	Intimacy Avoidance			052	10	01
SWAP	Dysphoria			076	00	00
Clark (1990)	Self-annulation			010	01	01
	Negative affection			010	00	00
	Social isolation			009	01	01
	Hipersensibility			010	00	00
	Pessimism			010	00	00
Total		470	67	39

Items	Anxious Preoccupation	Generalized Avoidance	Avoidance of Intimal Relationships
34	0.260	0.566	0.087
83	0.421	0.553	0.044
466	0.374	0.684	0.211
468	0.663	0.273	0.039
469	0.732	0.324	0.133
470	0.578	0.184	0.003
471	0.706	0.352	0.126
477	0.207	0.557	0.190
481	0.269	0.524	0.146
483	0.371	0.672	0.144
486	0.352	0.332	0.817
487	0.308	0.340	0.826
488	0.115	0.346	0.877
489	0.290	0.416	0.789
494	0.327	0.542	0.137
496	0.541	0.664	0.197
499	0.443	0.709	0.180
503	0.231	0.605	0.395
nº of items	4	10	4
α	0.80	0.84	0.91

Dimension and Factor	1	2	3	4	5
1. Anxious Preoccupation	1	0.45*	0.23*	0.73*	0.46*
2. Generalized Avoidance	0.45*	1	0.36*	0.87*	0.76*
3. Avoidance of Intimal Relationships	0.23*	0.36*	1	0.61*	0.24*
4. Revised Avoidance	0.73*	0.87*	0.61*	1	0.70*
5. Original Avoidance	0.46*	0.76*	0.24*	0.70*	1

Dimension and Factor	Neuroticism
	Ans.	Anger	Dep.	Emb.	Imp.	Vul.	Neu.
Anxious Preoccupation	0.40**	0.26**	0.34**	0.44**	0.33**	0.49**	0.53**
Generalized Avoidance	0.24**	0.24**	0.42**	0.56**	0.15*	0.46**	0.49**
Intimal relations Avoidance	0.16*	0.04	0.17*	0.17*	0.08	0.23**	0.20**
Revised Avoidance	0.35**	0.26**	0.44**	0.56**	0.24**	0.54**	0.56**
Original Avoidance	0.24**	0.23**	0.37**	0.56**	0.16*	0.47**	0.48**
Dimension and Factor	Extraversion				0.16*	0.47**	0.48**
	Warm.	Gre.	Ass.	Act.	Sea.	PE.	Ext.
Anxious Preoccupation	-0.16*	-0.08	0.01	0.05	-0.02	-0.04	-0.07
Generalized Avoidance	-0.27**	-0.23**	-0.11	-0.24**	-0.18**	-0.23**	-0.35**
Avoidance of Intimal Relationships	-0.16*	-0.14*	0.02	-0.07	-0.01	-0.07	-0.11
Avoidance Revised	-0.28**	-0.21**	-0.05	-0.14*	-0.11	-0.17*	-0.27**
Original Avoidance	-0.19**	-0.14*	-0.06	-0.20**	-0.17*	-0.17*	-0.26**

Dimension and Factor	Ans.	Dep.	Int. Av.	Av.
Anxious preoccupation	0.69**	0.41**	0.17*	0.28**
Generalized Avoidance	0.56**	0.66**	0.31**	0.69**
Intimal Relations Avoidance	0.31**	0.43**	0.61**	0.45**
Total Avoidance Revised	0.70**	0.69**	0.44**	0.65**
Original Avoidance	0.47**	0.50**	0.18**	0.53**