Alessio Gori1, Giuseppe Craparo2, Marco Giannini3, Yura Loscalzo3, Vincenzo Caretti4, Daniele La Barbera5, Gian Mauro Manzoni6, Gianluca Castelnuovo7, Franca Tani3, Lucia Ponti3, Daniel Dewey8, David Schuldberg9. 1. Department of Sciences of Education and Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gori.alessio@gmail.com. 2. University of Enna "Kore", Italy. 3. Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. 4. Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA, Rome, Italy. 5. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. 6. eCampus University, Faculty of Psychology, Italy. 7. Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. 8. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. 9. Department of Psychology, University of Montana, Missoula, USA.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Given the centrality of insight in promoting change, the relevance of measures for assessing this construct has become increasingly clear. This paper describes a new self-report measure for assessing some of the characteristics of insight, the insight orientation scale (IOS). AIMS: In study 1, we evaluated the factor structure and the reliability of the scale. In study 2, we analyzed the concurrent and discriminant validity of the scale in patients with different clinical diagnoses. METHODS: In study 1 participants were 600 individuals (41.1% male, 58.9% female) with a mean age of 33.95 years (SD = 13.04). In study 2 participants were 136 individuals divided into the following groups: 1) schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders (n = 26); 2) substance-related disorders (n = 55); 3) depressive disorders (n = 27); and 4) personality disorders (n = 28). INSTRUMENTS: Instruments are the insight orientation scale (IOS) and the Beck cognitive insight scale. RESULTS: The goodness-of-fit indices showed a satisfactory fit of a one factor model. We found also a good internal consistency (α = .77). CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the dimensionality of the IOS and suggest that it may be useful as an assessment tool for use in guiding psychotherapy.
INTRODUCTION: Given the centrality of insight in promoting change, the relevance of measures for assessing this construct has become increasingly clear. This paper describes a new self-report measure for assessing some of the characteristics of insight, the insight orientation scale (IOS). AIMS: In study 1, we evaluated the factor structure and the reliability of the scale. In study 2, we analyzed the concurrent and discriminant validity of the scale in patients with different clinical diagnoses. METHODS: In study 1 participants were 600 individuals (41.1% male, 58.9% female) with a mean age of 33.95 years (SD = 13.04). In study 2 participants were 136 individuals divided into the following groups: 1) schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders (n = 26); 2) substance-related disorders (n = 55); 3) depressive disorders (n = 27); and 4) personality disorders (n = 28). INSTRUMENTS: Instruments are the insight orientation scale (IOS) and the Beck cognitive insight scale. RESULTS: The goodness-of-fit indices showed a satisfactory fit of a one factor model. We found also a good internal consistency (α = .77). CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the dimensionality of the IOS and suggest that it may be useful as an assessment tool for use in guiding psychotherapy.
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