Rating of personality disorder features in popular movie characters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tools for training professionals in rating personality disorders are few. We present one such tool: rating of fictional persons. However, before ratings of fictional persons can be useful, we need to know whether raters get the same results, when rating fictional characters.

Method

Psychology students at the University of Copenhagen (N = 8) rated four different movie characters from four movies based on three systems: Global rating scales representing each of the 10 personality disorders in the DSM-IV, a criterion list of all criteria for all DSM-IV personality disorders in random order, and the Ten Item Personality Inventory for rating the five-factor model. Agreement was estimated based on intraclass-correlation.

Results

Agreement for rating scales for pe

SUBMITTER: Hesse M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1325244 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature