title: Diagnostic efficiency of the German version of the Standardized Assessment of Personality--Abbreviated Scale.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  About 30% of outpatients meet the criteria of a personality disorder (PD). When PD remains unnoticed or untreated, individuals with co-occurring PD benefit considerably less from disorder-related treatments for axis I disorders than patients without PD. The present study examines the diagnostic efficiency of the German version of the Standardized Assessment of Personality--Abbreviated Scale Self-Rating Version (SAPAS-SR).
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on the signal detection theory, receiver operating characteristics as well as reliability and validity indicators are determined in a heterogeneous outpatient sample (n = 230).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The values of internal consistency and the validity indicators turned out to be in the expected range. The area under the curve was low, at 0.67. Using the cutoff point of 4, sensitivity (80%) and specificity (46%) values were at a level that was only acceptable.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Since specificity was lower than in previous studies, using the SAPAS-SR results in a moderate cost efficiency only.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Technical University of Brunswick, Brunswick, Germany.
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Söchtig
authors.forename: Sören
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kliem
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kröger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity