Propriedades psicométricas da versão revisada da dimensão necessidade de atenção do inventário dimensional clínico da personalidade

The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the revised scale Need for Attention of the Inventario Dimensional Clinico da Personalidade (IDCP). 120 participants composed the study, aged between 17 and 54 years (M = 24.6; SD = 7.96) and 96 women (80%). All subjects answered the IDCP, the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised and a self-assessment questionnaire developed for 1 Endereco para correspondencia: Universidade Sao Francisco, Rua Alexandre Rodrigues Barbosa, 45, Campus de Itatiba, Itatiba, SP, Brasil 13251-900. E-mail: lucas@labape.com.br, caty_sette@hotmail.com, claudio. capitao@saofrancisco.edu.br e rprimi@mac.com Fomento: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifi co e Tecnologico (CNPq); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP). Carvalho, L. F., Sette, C. P., Capitao, C. G., Primi, R. 148 this study. The fi ndings in the study were favorable in relation to evidence of validity based on internal structure, featuring four components theoretically coherent and interpretable; validity evidence based on relations with other variables, indicating coherent relationships between the total score and components of the new dimension with external variables to the instrument; and reliability (internal consistency) of the scale reviewed and its components (between .73 and .86). Accordingly, it is concluded that the reviewed scale is more adequate from the psychometric perspective compared to its original version, and is more related to pathological personality functioning.