Circumplex structure of the Impact Message Inventory (IMI-C): an empirical test with the dutch version.

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The Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI-C; Kiesler & Schmidt, 2006) is an interpersonal personality measure purporting to capture the command and relationship messages experienced by the IMI-C respondent in her or his interactions with a target person. Mixed support for the circumplex structure of the American IMI-C was found by Schmidt, Wagner, and Kiesler (1999). In this study, we sought to establish the circumplex structure of the Dutch IMI-C adaptation (Hafkenscheid, 2003) in a group of clinician raters assessing a total of 350 psychiatric patient targets. The Dutch IMI-C exhibited closer fit to circumplex models in this study than in the Schmidt et al. (1999) study of the English language IMI-C. However, using the most stringent and conservative circumplex criteria, the circumplex structure of the Dutch IMI-C could not unequivocally be confirmed. Our findings do not justify the generation of 8 separate octant scores when the IMI-C is used as an interpersonal measurement tool. Clinical use of the IMI-C for interpersonal assessment and diagnosis should probably be limited to the location of patient targets on the 2 main dimensions of Control and Affiliation, sacrificing the specificity of octant level interpersonal assessment.

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Author/s: Hafkenscheid, Anton (A); Rouckhout, Danny (D);

Affiliation: Sinai Centre, Jewish Mental Health Services, Amersfoort, The Netherlands. a.hafkenscheid(-atsign-)sinaicentrum.nl

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Validation Studies

Journal: Journal of personality assessment (J Pers Assess), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Mar; vol 91 (issue 2) : pp 187-94

Dates: Created 2009/02/11; Completed 2009/05/29;

PMID: 19205939, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 5/29/2009, IMS Date: 29 May 2009 00:00:00)

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