{"title":"Revisiting Clinical Scholarship at JPA: Clarifying Priorities and Expanding Opportunities in the <i>Clinical Applications and Case Studies</i> Section.","authors":"Katie C Lewis, Christopher J Hopwood","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2668416","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2668416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"461-463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147941796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanuele Preti, Marco Di Sarno, Erika Fanti, Caterina Felici, Fabio Madeddu, Rossella Di Pierro
{"title":"Rolling in the Deep of Personality: Psychometric Properties of the Structured Interview of Personality Organization - Revised (STIPO-R) in Italy.","authors":"Emanuele Preti, Marco Di Sarno, Erika Fanti, Caterina Felici, Fabio Madeddu, Rossella Di Pierro","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2606011","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2606011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The STIPO-R (Structured Interview of Personality Organization - Revised) is an interview assessing personality organization across five major functional domains (identity, object relations, defenses, aggression, moral values). In contrast to a-theoretical models, the STIPO-R offers a theoretically grounded conceptualization of personality pathology based on object-relations theory. This study tests psychometric properties of the interview across mixed psychiatric patients (<i>N</i> = 180) and community individuals (<i>N</i> = 170) in Italy. Confirmatory Factor Analysis indicated that a bifactor model with five specific factors and a general factor had good fit. The latent scores discriminated between patients and controls, while some specific dimensions differentiated those with PDs from other psychiatric patients. The STIPO-R had sensible correlations with criterion measures, including maladaptive personality traits and symptom distress. Finally, a network analysis on the mean scores of the STIPO-R suggested no major difference in the network structure between patients and controls, indicating that the dimensions of defenses, aggression, and identity were the most interconnected in the networks. The STIPO-R appears to be a valid tool to assess personality impairment, and a good operationalization of the psychodynamic theory of personality pathology upon which it is built.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"518-530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145889411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael D Robinson, Roberta L Irvin, Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni, Lauren L Rahier, Pranika Vohra
{"title":"Portraits in Misery: A Bottom-Up-to-Prototype Approach to Personality Assessment.","authors":"Michael D Robinson, Roberta L Irvin, Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni, Lauren L Rahier, Pranika Vohra","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2595280","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2595280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present investigation endorses the premise that each person can be understood in terms of particular ways of responding to particular situations. In two studies (total <i>N</i> = 353), participants indicated how they would respond to a wide variety of mundane and consequential life situations. These person-in-situation units were used to understand variations in miserable functioning, defined in terms of degree of match to a miserable person prototype. Participants receiving higher behavioral tendencies of misery (BT-M) scores scored lower in flourishing and higher in psychopathological symptoms. In addition, misery, as quantified, was evident to peers (Study 1) and linked to deficiencies in goal pursuit and achievement in daily life (Study 2). The results provide insights into miserable functioning while also providing support for a new approach to personality assessment that can link person-specific bottom-up units to any number of constructs through the use of prototype scoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"561-573"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12695030/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145708036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan L Terrasa, Pedro Montoya, Inmaculada Riquelme
{"title":"A Stratified Analysis of Body Perception, Interoception and Somatosensory Brain Processing in Healthy Adults.","authors":"Juan L Terrasa, Pedro Montoya, Inmaculada Riquelme","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2690025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2690025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Body perception refers to the capacity to perceive internal and external bodily stimuli <i>via</i> brain somatosensory processing. Research on body perception has focused on specific dimensions rather than in a multidimensional way. Body perception levels were assessed in 120 adults through two self-reported questionnaires. Some domains of self-reported body perception (body awareness, public consciousness, body competence) were notably affected by age and sex. Subsequently, sensitivity to exteroceptive and interoceptive stimuli was assessed in the 55 participants with higher and lower body perception. Self-reported body perception was associated with pain sensitivity, but not to interoception. Individuals with high body perception exhibited higher pain sensitivity. Body awareness, a subdimension of the Scale of Body Connection, was a key domain distinguishing individual with high versus low body perception. An additional analysis of tactile somatosensory event-related potentials (SEPs) was conducted in the 42 participants with higher and lower body awareness. Individuals with heightened body awareness displayed increased amplitudes in SEPs associated with attention processes. In conclusion, body awareness appears to be an essential element for exploring body perception and its connections with physiological mechanisms. Evaluating body awareness in clinical environments would be relevant for recognizing dysfunctional body perception and creating modulatory interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148352230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam D Hicks, Rachel S Faulkenberry, Thomas E Joiner, David M McCord
{"title":"Predicting the Level of Suicide Risk with the MMPI-3.","authors":"Adam D Hicks, Rachel S Faulkenberry, Thomas E Joiner, David M McCord","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2692011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2692011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Death by suicide is a global problem. Indeed, it is one of the leading causes of death in young people, and risk factors for suicide have continued to increase in recent years. Although interventions have been a primary focus of researchers and clinicians, research has also addressed the accurate assessment of risk for suicide. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 3 (MMPI-3), the most recent version of the MMPI family of instruments, is one of the most widely used psychological assessments in a multitude of settings. The current study examined the ability of the Suicidal/Death Ideation (SUI) scale on the MMPI-3 to classify the level of suicide risk as determined clinically, using a semi-structured clinical interview associated with the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide. Our results, if corroborated by future studies in higher-acuity settings, may lead to further interpretive statements at higher levels of elevation on the SUI scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148352191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mireia Santamaria-Rincon, Marta Miragall, Pedro Sarrión, Sara Martínez-Gregorio, Lorena Desdentado, Rosa María Baños
{"title":"Strengths Knowledge Scale (SKS) and Strengths Use Scale (SUS): Revisiting Psychometric Properties and Gender Invariance in the General Spanish Population.","authors":"Mireia Santamaria-Rincon, Marta Miragall, Pedro Sarrión, Sara Martínez-Gregorio, Lorena Desdentado, Rosa María Baños","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2688993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2688993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Strengths Knowledge Scale (SKS) and the Strengths Use Scale (SUS) are the most widely used instruments to measure strengths knowledge and strengths use, yet their psychometric properties have not been examined in the general Spanish population and the factor structure of the SUS remains inconclusive. This study examines the factor structure, reliability, construct validity, and gender invariance of both scales in 574 Spanish adults (<i>M</i> = 33.35, <i>SD</i> = 14.89). Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and measurement invariance analyses were conducted. A unidimensional structure was supported for both scales, although the SUS required correlated residuals between five item pairs to achieve adequate fit. Both scales showed good reliability. Strengths knowledge and strengths use were positively associated with emotional, psychological, and social well-being, while only strengths knowledge was additionally associated with lower anxious and depressive symptomatology. Both scales demonstrated scalar gender invariance. These findings support the psychometric adequacy of the use of the SKS and SUS in the Spanish general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148302212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emma E Buchtel, Frank Tian-Fang Ye, Xiao-Xiao Liu, Yanjun Guan, Hagop Sarkissian
{"title":"The Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale: Who is Uniquely Vulnerable to Relational Temptations for Bending Rules?","authors":"Emma E Buchtel, Frank Tian-Fang Ye, Xiao-Xiao Liu, Yanjun Guan, Hagop Sarkissian","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2685739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2685739","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Particularism-bending rules to help one's friends and relations-is a morally ambiguous form of corruption that, unlike bribery, might be justified by virtues of loyalty and care. To test whether they involve distinct moral vulnerabilities, we developed a 16-item Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale (PBTS) using lay input from Chinese populations, Rasch modeling, and Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM). Two pilot studies (<i>N</i> = 91; <i>N</i> = 114) in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland generated topic-matched scenarios of either particularism or bribery. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 499), eight pairs of scenarios were selected based on topic coverage, Rasch fit indices, and similar item functioning between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese participants. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 991), BSEM analyses supported the scale's two-factor structure, partial scalar invariance across regions, and convergent and discriminant validity. Critically, when controlling for shared variance, particularism tolerance was uniquely associated with moral excuse-making (high Moral Disengagement and low Rule Orientation) and not with virtues. In contrast, bribery tolerance was negatively related to caring virtues (Reciprocal Filial Piety and Warm virtues) and positively related to Authoritarian Filial Piety. The PBTS provides a psychometrically sound tool for investigating distinct moral motivations associated with bribery vs. particularism.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148302146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni, Pranika Vohra, Michael D Robinson
{"title":"Tuning into Experience: Self-Location Flexibility and Experiential Ability.","authors":"Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni, Pranika Vohra, Michael D Robinson","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2688994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2688994","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conceptual metaphors for the head and the heart implicate distinct modes of processing, each of which may be advantageous in some circumstances but not others. By representing the self as an entity that can migrate between head and heart bodily regions in a strategic manner, some individuals may be capable of modulating the self to succeed in both rational and experiential domains. In three studies involving five samples (total <i>N</i> = 798), participants simulated themselves performing different activities, following which they indicated whether the self would primarily be located in the head, the heart, or somewhere in between. Self-location flexibility, defined in terms of heart-favoring self-locations in situations involving feelings, was positively linked to trait-related emotional intelligence (Study 1), ability-related emotional intelligence (Study 2), and experiential abilities of multiple types (Study 3). The research documents a novel form of flexibility that should be of interest to multiple literatures.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148277846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Configurational Approaches in Personality Assessment Research: An Introduction with Application to Rorschach Data.","authors":"David Joubert, Ava Bowns","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2684429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2684429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces configurational comparative methods (CCMs), such as qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and coincidence analysis (CNA), as valuable tools for advancing personality assessment research. Unlike traditional variable-centered approaches, CCMs focus on configurations of indicators that are necessary or sufficient for specific outcomes, aligning more closely with clinical reasoning and idiographic case formulation. Drawing on principles like equifinality and multifinality, CCMs address the complexity and heterogeneity of psychological functioning, particularly in clinical populations. An empirical example using Rorschach and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) data from a sample of university students illustrates how CNA can identify distinct combinations of indicators linked to depressive symptomatology in college students. The analysis highlights interpretive asymmetries, showing that the presence of specific Rorschach markers yields clearer inferences than their absence. While CCMs involve challenges such as data calibration and model ambiguity, they offer a unique capacity to integrate quantitative and qualitative findings. As a complement to variable- and person-centered methods, configurational approaches may help assessment researchers formulate and test clinically interpretable hypotheses about patterns of indicators. The paper argues for greater adoption of these methods to better capture the complexity of personality and psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148258546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jana Volkert, Anna-Maria Weiland, Nina Frohn, Leonie C Bartmann, Mirijam Luginsland, Max Zettl, Svenja Taubner
{"title":"Transdiagnostic Assessment of Psychopathology: Psychometric Evaluation of the German Version of the Defense Mechanism Rating Scale (DMRS-SR-30) and Relationship with Personality Functioning and Associated Constructs.","authors":"Jana Volkert, Anna-Maria Weiland, Nina Frohn, Leonie C Bartmann, Mirijam Luginsland, Max Zettl, Svenja Taubner","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2026.2663908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2026.2663908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Defense mechanisms are relevant transdiagnostic markers for adaptive and maladaptive personality functioning and psychopathology. This study investigates the factor structure, reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of the German version of the novel Defense Mechanism Rating Scales-Self Report-30 (DMRS-SR-30). Data was collected from a German community-based sample (<i>N</i> = 584) and a second independent sample of clinical (<i>n</i> = 30) and non-clinical (<i>n</i> = 30) participants. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the three-factor structure proposed by Prout et al. could not be replicated. Subsequent exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor solution (Mature, Mental-Inhibition-and-Avoidance, Immature-Depressive) with diverging item loading compared to previous findings. Correlation analyses supported the construct validity of the scale: Mature defenses showed significant negative correlations with impairment in personality functioning (assessed with the Levels of Personality Functioning Scale (LPFS): <i>r</i> = -0.60) and maladaptive personality traits (assessed with the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID5BF + M): <i>r</i> = -0.33 - -0.57). Regarding discriminative validity, the clinical group scored significantly lower on mature defense mechanisms (<i>d</i> = 0.64) and significantly higher on neurotic defense mechanisms (<i>d</i> = 0.55-0.97) compared to the non-clinical group. Implications for the German version of the DMRS-SR-30 and future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148204833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}