TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Reliability and validity of the German version of the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO)
JO  - BMC psychiatry
A1  - Doering, Stephan
A1  - Burgmer, Markus
A1  - Heuft, Gereon
A1  - Menke, Dina
A1  - Bäumer, Brigitta
A1  - Lübking, Margit
A1  - Feldmann, Marcus
A1  - Hörz, Susanne
A1  - Schneider, Gudrun
SP  - 210
EP  - 210
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - BACKGROUND: The assessment of personality organization and its observable behavioral manifestations, i.e. personality functioning, has a long tradition in psychodynamic psychiatry. Recently, the DSM-5 Levels of Personality Functioning Scale has moved it into the focus of psychiatric diagnostics. Based on Kernberg's concept of personality organization the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO) was developed for diagnosing personality functioning. The STIPO covers seven dimensions: (1) identity, (2) object relations, (3) primitive defenses, (4) coping/rigidity, (5) aggression, (6) moral values, and (7) reality testing and perceptual distortions. The English version of the STIPO has previously revealed satisfying psychometric properties. METHODS: Validity and reliability of the German version of the 100-item instrument have been evaluated in 122 psychiatric patients. All patients were diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and were assessed by means of the STIPO. Moreover, all patients completed eight questionnaires that served as criteria for external validity of the STIPO. RESULTS: Interrater reliability varied between intraclass correlations of .89 and 1.0, Crohnbach's alpha for the seven dimensions was .69 to .93. All a priori selected questionnaire scales correlated significantly with the corresponding STIPO dimensions. Patients with PD revealed significantly higher STIPO scores (i.e. worse personality functioning) than patients without PD; patients cluster B PD showed significantly higher STIPO scores than patients with cluster C PD. CONCLUSIONS: Interrater reliability, Crohnbach's alpha, concurrent validity, and differential validity of the STIPO are satisfying. The STIPO represents an appropriate instrument for the assessment of personality functioning in clinical and research settings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-244X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-210
ID  - ref1
ER  -