BACKGROUND: The assessment of personality functioning has recently become a focus of psychiatric diagnostics. The interview-based Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) provides a 'structure axis' for the assessment of personality functioning. METHODS: One hundred twenty-four psychiatric patients were diagnosed by means of the Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV (SCID-I and SCID-II), underwent OPD-2 interviews, and completed 9 questionnaires. RESULTS: The OPD-2 structure axis shows good interrater reliability (intraclass correlation = 0.793). Correlations between the OPD-2 structure axis domains and a priori selected questionnaire scales were of medium size and significant. Patients with a personality disorder (PD) showed significantly worse personality functioning than those without. In cluster B PD, personality functioning was more severely impaired than in cluster C PD. DISCUSSION: The OPD-2 structure axis shows good reliability as well as concurrent and discriminant validity and can be recommended for clinical use and research purposes.
BACKGROUND: The assessment of personality functioning has recently become a focus of psychiatric diagnostics. The interview-based Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) provides a 'structure axis' for the assessment of personality functioning. METHODS: One hundred twenty-four psychiatricpatients were diagnosed by means of the Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV (SCID-I and SCID-II), underwent OPD-2 interviews, and completed 9 questionnaires. RESULTS: The OPD-2 structure axis shows good interrater reliability (intraclass correlation = 0.793). Correlations between the OPD-2 structure axis domains and a priori selected questionnaire scales were of medium size and significant. Patients with a personality disorder (PD) showed significantly worse personality functioning than those without. In cluster B PD, personality functioning was more severely impaired than in cluster C PD. DISCUSSION: The OPD-2 structure axis shows good reliability as well as concurrent and discriminant validity and can be recommended for clinical use and research purposes.
Authors: Jolana Wagner-Skacel; Susanne Bengesser; Nina Dalkner; Sabrina Mörkl; Annamaria Painold; Carlo Hamm; René Pilz; Alexandra Rieger; Hans-Peter Kapfhammer; Michaela Hiebler-Ragger; Emanuel Jauk; Mary I Butler; Eva Z Reininghaus Journal: Front Psychiatry Date: 2020-05-11 Impact factor: 4.157
Authors: Nora Hettich; Manfred E Beutel; Mareike Ernst; Clara Schliessler; Hanna Kampling; Johannes Kruse; Elmar Braehler Journal: PLoS One Date: 2022-01-28 Impact factor: 3.240