Standardised assessment of personality – a study of validity and reliability in substance abusers

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Reliability of the SAPAS

	Four months test-retest reliability		Internal consistency
	Kappa	Kappa with different interviewers	Item-total correlation	Alpha if deleted
N	31	23	58
Difficulty making and keeping friends	0.53	0.47	0.41	0.57
Usually a loner	0.58	0.51	0.31	0.60
Trusts people	0.58	0.53	0.47	0.55
Normally loses temper easily	0.32	0.32	0.27	0.61
Normally impulsive	0.50	0.58	0.20	0.63
Normally a worrier	0.26	0.25	0.30	0.60
Normally dependent	0.32	0.27	0.35	0.59
Perfectionist	0.50	0.57	0.29	0.61

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