Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The current model for depressive disorders and its impact on clinical management
- Part II The diagnosis and management of melancholic and psychotic depression
- Part III An introduction to non-melancholic depression
- Part IV Modelling and managing the non-melancholic depressive disorders
- Appendix 1 The DMI-18 and the DMI-10
- Appendix 2 The CORE system of measuring psychomotor disturbance
- Appendix 3 The temperament and personality measure
- References
- Index
Appendix 3 - The temperament and personality measure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The current model for depressive disorders and its impact on clinical management
- Part II The diagnosis and management of melancholic and psychotic depression
- Part III An introduction to non-melancholic depression
- Part IV Modelling and managing the non-melancholic depressive disorders
- Appendix 1 The DMI-18 and the DMI-10
- Appendix 2 The CORE system of measuring psychomotor disturbance
- Appendix 3 The temperament and personality measure
- References
- Index
Summary
The 109-item temperament and personality (T&P) measure assesses both personality characteristics (8 subscales) and disordered functioning (2 subscales). Items for assessing T&P were selected from a larger item pool and, were included only if their factor loadings were high and after consideration of their clinical usefulness as ‘markers’ of that particular construct.
Each item of the T&P measure is rated on a 4-point scale where ‘not true at all’ is assigned a rating of 1; ‘slightly true’, 2; ‘moderately true’, 3; and ‘very true’, 4. To obtain judgements about trait characteristics, subjects are asked to tick the rating option ‘that best describes the way you usually or generally feel or behave’ (over the years and not just recently). Subscale scores for each of the 8 T&P dimensions are derived by summing the relevant items for that subscale and compared against a set of norms. The 8 subscales are as following:
(i) Anxious worrying (8 items)
(ii) Perfectionism (8 items)
(iii) Personal reserve (8 items)
(iv) Irritability (8 items)
(v) Social avoidance (7 items)
(vi) Sensitivity to rejection (7 items)
(vii) Self-criticism (8 items)
(viii) Self-focused (7 items).
Psychometric properties of the measure have been established in a number of studies on samples including general practice attenders, psychiatric outpatients suffering from a depressive disorder, and a web-based community survey of ‘ever depressed’ participants.
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- Modelling and Managing the Depressive DisordersA Clinical Guide, pp. 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005