Display Full Text | Download Full Text
310.37 kB PDF file

Degree

Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Science, 2007.

Abstract

This study examined the reliability and validity of a new measure, an inventory designed for the assessment of Dependent Personality traits. The new scale, the Dependent Personality Inventory, uses a dichotomous (True/ False) answer format and produces 8 subscales which correspond with the individual criterion of the disorder as defined by the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition (DSM-IV-TR). The scale was administered to a sample of 82 students attending a large mid-western university in the United States. Factor analysis of the DPI using a Principle Components Analysis produced two main factors. Additional analysis showed a differential correlation between these two factors and the Dependent Personality Questionnaire (DPQ; Hyler, 1994) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Social Introversion Subscales 1-3 (MMPI-2 Si1-3; Ben-Porath, Hostetler, Butcher & Graham, 1989). The DPQ correlated highly with the DPI factor 1(r=-.65, p<.00) and to a lesser degree with factor 2 (r=-.29, p<.02). All three Si subscales of the MMPI-2 correlated highly with factor 1 (r=-.43, p<.00; r=-.32, p<.00; r=-.50, p< .00) respectively; while only subscales 1 and 3 correlate with factor 2 (r=-.24, p<.05; r=-.39, p<.00) respectively. The results support both the reliability and validity of the DPI as a screening measure in a college student sample. Recommendations for additional studies using the DPI are discussed.

Keywords

Dependent personality disorder; Underlying dimensions of dependency; Dependency; Inventory; DSM-IV DPD subtypes; Dependency subtypes

Advisor

Amir Poreh

Pages

63p.

Document number: csu1200081883
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1200081883

This ETD has been downloaded 1622 times (through March 2013)