15th Alps-Adria Psychology Conference

Interrater reliability of the Hungarian version of the Structured Interview of Personality Organization – Revised (STIPO-R) in a Hungarian clinical sample

11 Sep 2024, 12:30

2h

Assembly Hall

Poster Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Poster Session

Speaker

Tibor Cece Kiss (Doctoral School of Psychology, University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Description

Background: The Structured Interview of Personality Organization – Revised (STIPO-R) (Clarkin et al., 2016) assesses personality organization as conceptualized by Otto Kernberg. Establishing its interrater reliability is crucial for clinical use, but no studies have yet evaluated the Hungarian version's reliability.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the interrater reliability of the Hungarian version of STIPO-R on a Hungarian clinical sample.

Methods: The sample consisted of 20 inpatients from the Department of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Rehabilitation “Tündérhegy,” Semmelweis University, Rehabilitation Clinic (SERK), Budapest. The first author, an experienced clinician, conducted and recorded all the interviews. Three additional experienced colleagues independently evaluate and rate the recordings. This part of the research is underway. After completion of coding, interrater reliability will be assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) for the total score and subscales.

Results: The research is ongoing, but we expect ICCs for the total score and subscales to range from 0.75 to 0.90, indicating substantial to excellent interrater reliability, similar to other language versions of STIPO-R.

Conclusion: We anticipate that the Hungarian version of STIPO-R will demonstrate strong interrater reliability, supporting its use in clinical practice and research within Hungarian-speaking populations. Future research should explore its validity and reliability in larger and more diverse samples.