The SAPAS was developed from the semi-structured interview Standardised Assessment of Personality [ 45, 46], and validated in a sample of psychiatric patients, where it was found to have good psychometric properties, correctly identifying the presence of personality disorder in 90% of the patients, with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.94 and 0.85 respectively [ 44].
A structured patient interview for personality disorders, the Rapid Personality Assessment Schedule, requires staff training and performs moderately well as a screen for personality disorder when compared to the full version of the PAS (sensitivity = 64%, specificity = 82%) [ 15].
Taken together, the STIPO is the only structured interview for the assessment of personality functioning.
The STIPO [ 21] is a 100-item structured interview for the assessment of personality organization, i.e., personality functioning.
A follow up after 15 years included a blinded diagnostic interview, a self-assessment of personality disorders, and national register data on prescription drugs and health services use.
The SAPAS is a brief interview-based screening instrument consisting of eight dichotomously rated items taken from the opening section of an informant-based interview, the Standardised Assessment of Personality, and has been found to have high sensitivity and specificity as a screener for personality disorders [ 16].
Also, the questions for the diagnosis of depressive personality disorder of the SCID-II (Structured Clinical Interview for the assessment of personality disorders) were posed and patients filled out the Beck Depression Inventory [ 23], one of the most frequently used instruments for the assessment of depression.
The corpus is made up of French broadcast interviews of public personalities, mostly political, interviewed by journalists.
She had been writing a series of personality interviews called Face to Face.
