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J Pers Disord. 2020 Mar 12;1-15. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_472. Epub 2020 Mar 12.

The Level of Personality Functioning Scale Applied to Clinical Material From the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO): Utility in Detecting Personality Pathology.

Journal of personality disorders

Rossella Di Pierro, Ivan Gargiulo, Anita Poggi, Fabio Madeddu, Emanuele Preti

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  2. Personality Disorders Lab, Parma-Milan, Italy.

PMID: 32163025 DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_472

Abstract

The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders states that personality pathology involves significant impairment in personality functioning that can be assessed using the Level of Personality Functioning Scale (LPFS). However, the ability of the LPFS to capture impairments typical of personality pathology, rather than of general psychopathology, is still unclear. The authors applied a 12-item version of the LPFS to clinical interviews (i.e., the Structured Interview of Personality Organization [STIPO]) to test whether differences in levels of impairment in domains related to both self- and interpersonal functioning can be detected among patients with personality disorders (

Keywords: STIPO; alternative model for personality disorders; clinical utility; level of personality functioning; personality disorders

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