The Personality Inventory for DSM-V-BRIEF FORM (PID-V-BF): Translation and Validation

Urdu Version of PID-V-(BF)

Abstract

Background. DSM-5 proposes a new trait model of personality for the diagnosis of personality disorders. This model constitutes five major domains encompassing maladaptive personality traits that are considered as pathological ends of famous five factor model. There domains were named as antagonism (agreeableness), detachment (extraversion), disinhibition (conscientiousness), negative affectivity (neuroticism), and psychoticism (openness).  Inventory used to operationalize this model is called Personality Inventory for DSM-V. This study utilizes brief form of the inventory with twenty-five items for having culturally comparable and lexically valid version of this inventory to use with Pakistani population.

Method

Items of the scale were translated by bilingual exerts into the targeted language through standardized procedures and Confirmatory factor analysis was then run on the sample of 300 adults (M = 27.36, SD = 9.32).

Results

CFA revealed the satisfactory fit of the model after adding for covariance. The obtained value for  chi square was 616.86 (df = 267) which indicates adequate fit of the model. RMSEA =.06 also meet the criteria and specifies good fit of the model. Similarly, fit indices for the model also meet the minimum criteria (IFI=.91, TLI, .90, CFI = .91).  Hence, All the five domains of trait model were confirmed into local culture and depict good reliability coefficients.

Conclusion

It was concluded that Urdu version of the PID-V was proved to be satisfactory and acceptable for further use in the Pakistani context.

Keywords. Personality inventory for DSM-V, DSM. translation, validation, confirmatory factor analysis.