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Elucidating the association between the self-harm inventory and several borderline personality measures in an inpatient psychiatric sample |
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| Authors: | Martin Sellbom Randy A Sansone Douglas A Songer |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;2. Department of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA;3. Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, OH, USA |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Keywords: | Assessment borderline personality disorder self-harm inventory |