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Factor structure of the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms in a private psychiatric hospital population. 1986

K R Vincent, and B Duthie

The factor structure of the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms (DIPS) in a private psychiatric patient population was examined (N = 60). Principal components factor analysis with Varimax rotation yielded three well-defined factors, which accounted for 70% of the total variance. These factors can be conceptualized as neurotic, psychotic, and characterological. Results support the construct validity of the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms and are discussed in relation to previous psychometric studies of psychopathology that employed the MMPI.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008950	MMPI	A personality inventory consisting of statements to be asserted or denied by the individual. The patterns of response are characteristic of certain personality attributes.	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
D010551	Personality	Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.	Personalities
D011594	Psychometrics	Assessment of psychological variables by the application of mathematical procedures.	Psychometric
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523	Mental Disorders	Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.	Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders