Title

Development Of A Brief Screening Questionnaire For Histrionic Personality Symptoms

Keywords

Assessment; Histrionic personality disorder; Personality; Personality disorders

Abstract

Compared to other personality disorders such as borderline or antisocial, histrionic personality disorder has received comparably little attention in the research and clinical literature. Currently, there is no freely accessible, stand-alone clinical measure for histrionic symptoms. In this article, we report two studies that examined the reliability, convergent validity and factor structure of a new measure of histrionic personality disorder symptoms, the Brief Histrionic Personality Scale (BHPS). Study 1 describes the initial development of the measure with 661 young adults. An initial pool of 36 items was narrowed down to a 11-item, reliable scale that converged highly with the Colligan/Morey/Offord MMPI scale for histrionic symptoms, as well as with a measure of extraversion. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure to the measure. In study 2, confirmatory factor analysis found that the two-factor model was a good fit to the data on a sample of 340 young adults. Taken together, these results suggest that the BHPS is a promising research and clinical tool for histrionic personality disorder. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Personality and Individual Differences

Volume

66

Number of Pages

124-127

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.029

Socpus ID

84898788601 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84898788601

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