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[The OPD conflict questionnaire]
Cord Benecke1, Miriam Henkel1, Stephan Doering2
1Institut für Psychologie Universität Kassel Holländische Straße 36-38 34127 Kassel Deutschland Institut für Psychologie.
Abstract:
The OPD conflict questionnaire Background: To date, no self-report measure is available to assess modes of coping with unconscious conflicts according to Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD). The OPD conflict questionnaire (OPD-CQ) developed here thus intends to close this gap.
Methods:
To select the items for the OPD-CQ, expert ratings and psychometric criteria based on a sample of 534 persons were combined.
Results:
The OPD-CQ comprises 66 items with which active and passive modes of coping with six conflicts as well as defended perception of conflict and emotions can be assessed. Some of the scales had a rather low internal consistency. An investigation of the factor structure of the OPD-CQ scales revealed five factors that could be meaningfully interpreted. The OPD-CQ scales showed expected correlations with other clinically relevant instruments. In addition, we showed the incremental validity of the OPD-CQ scales regarding the prediction of psychological distress and life satisfaction above and beyond structural deficits.
Discussion:
The results provide important clues toward developing and validating the OPDCQ. The first version presented here should be considered preliminary.
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