title: [Diagnosis of interpersonal problems in depressive disorders].
abstract: Questionnaires assessing interpersonal problems may be of relevance in the field of psychotherapy not only to determine therapeutic goals but also for predicting the quality of the therapeutic alliance. Our study on the clinical validity of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-IIP (Horowitz) focussed on patients with affective disorders. According to the literature we hypothesized two subgroups with different areas of problems: one with high interpersonal dependency, one with an overly autonomous stance. Our sample comprises 169 patients of a psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic for students with the diagnosis of an affective disorder according to ICD 10 and a partly (age, sex, subject) comparison group of 119 students. The IIP was able to replicate the aforementioned groups. The instrument therefore may be applied to measure change in depressive psychopathology. It also might offer help for differential indication in psychotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Abteilung für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schauenburg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pekrun
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leibing
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D011613:Psychotherapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: Diagnostik interpersonaler Probleme bei depressiven Störungen.