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Published on: March 8, 2018
Elucidating the association between the self-harm inventory and several borderline personality measures in an
Martin Sellbom1, Randy A Sansone2, Douglas A Songer2,3
1a Department of Psychology , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
Objective:
The current study evaluated the utility of the self-harm inventory (SHI) as a proxy for and screening measure of borderline personality disorder (BPD) using several diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM)-based BPD measures as criteria.
Methods:
We used a sample of 145 psychiatric inpatients, who completed the SHI and a series of well-validated, DSM-based self-report measures of BPD.
Results:
Using a series of latent trait and latent class analyses, we found that the SHI was substantially associated with a latent construct representing BPD, as well as differentiated latent classes of 'high' vs. 'low' BPD, with good accuracy.
Conclusions:
The SHI can serve as proxy for and a good screening measure for BPD, but future research needs to replicate these findings using structured interview-based measurement of BPD.
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