title: The Computerized Implicit Representation Test: Construct and incremental validity.
abstract: Discrepancies in mental representations between self-aspects and significant others are associated with depression, personality disorders, emotional reactivity, and interpersonal distress. The Computerized Implicit Representation Test (CIRT) is a novel measure developed to assess discrepancies in mental representations. Inpatient participants (N = 165) enrolled in a longitudinal study completed baseline CIRT ratings of similarity between self-aspects (actual-self, ideal-self, and ought-self) and between actual-self and significant others (mother, father, liked others, and disliked others). Based on the similarity ratings, multidimensional scaling was utilized to generate distances between key self- and other representations in three-dimensional space. Results of univariate linear regression analyses demonstrated that discrepancies (distances) between self-aspects, actual-self to others, and actual-self to mother were significantly associated with impulsive and self-destructive behaviors and/or lifetime anxiety disorders. Multivariate hierarchical linear regression models further indicated that three CIRT variables provided incremental validity above and beyond age, gender, and/or borderline personality disorder.
authors.affiliation: Director of Education and Training, Psychological Counseling Services, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Piers
authors.affiliation: Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Ryan J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Piers
authors.affiliation: Associate Director of Clinical Research, The Menninger Clinic, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: J Christopher
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fowler
authors.affiliation: Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, and Director of Psychotherapy Research, Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: J Christopher
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*