Discriminating the histrionic personality disorder through the recognition need factor from the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2

Investigating discriminative capacity is crucial to determining a measure’s usability and establishing a clinically useful cutoff fordecision-making. This study aimed to examine the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory-2 (idcp-2) factors’ capacity toidentify individuals according to the presence of an hpd diagnosis. We selected 339 individuals from a dataset comprising 4,854adults, reaching a statistical power of .98. We administered five hpd-related factors from the idcp-2. Most idcp-2 factors couldidentify individuals based on hpd pathological traits, as those diagnosed with hpd had the highest mean scores in the factors,except for the Interpersonal Superficiality factor. Intergroup comparisons and regression analysis indicated that the Need forRecognition factor was the most discriminating indicator of hpd pathological traits. We provide a cutoff to be clinically employedprofessionals for hpd screening.