Person reliability of psychiatric patients' responses to a psychopathology inventory

✍ Scribed by G. Cynthia Fekken; Ronald R. Holden; Dorothy H. G. Cotton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199910)55:10<1299::aid-jclp10>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

Person-reliability indices can assist clinicians in determining the interpretability of a patient's responses to the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI). Using an initial sample of 65 psychiatric patients, we found that: (1) different person-reliability indices showed modest evidence of psychometric adequacy and tended not to be confounded with general psychopathology; (2) a content consistency index of person reliability was predictably related to other item change variables, whereas within-session profile stability was related to across-session measures of profile stability; and

(3) evidence for the ability of person-reliability indices to moderate the validity of clinical criteria was weak. Results provide cautious support for a multidimensional conceptualization of the person reliability construct on the BPI but demand further evaluation of the clinical utility of personreliability indices.