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A Short Form of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumples Scales

Mental Health Research Program, Harvard Community Health Plan and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Simon Budman

Mental Health Research Program, Harvard Community Health Plan and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Annette Demby

Mental Health Research Program, Harvard Community Health Plan

Jocelyn Merry

Mental Health Research Program, Harvard Community Health Plan

The 127-item Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) has proven useful in capturing clinically important aspects of client's interpersonal functioning. Alden, Wiggins, and Pincus constructed a 64-item circumplex form of the IIP (IIP-C). We found that an even shorter form was needed for situations involving the screening of patients in a brief time. We, therefore, constructed a 32-item short circumplex form (IIP-SC). This form was found to exhibit excellent internal consistency reliability and strong test-retest correlations in three outpatient samples. It was found to correlate highly with the longer forms of the IIP and to show similar treatment responsiveness to them. The IIP-SC has also been demonstrated to correspond closely to the circumplex model of interpersonal behavior. The IIP-SC is, thus, an adequate substitute for the complete IIP in settings where brevity is important.

Assessment, Vol. 2, No. 1, 53-63 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191195002001006


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