Predictors for improvement in personality functioning during outpatient psychotherapy: a machine learning approach within a psychodynamic psychotherapy sample
BackgroundSince its introduction in the diagnostic manuals DSM-5 and ICD-11, the construct of personality functioning has gained increasing attention. However, it remains unclear which factors might predict improvement in personality functioning.MethodsWe examined a sample of 648 completed psychodyn...
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15 November 2024
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European psychiatry
Year: 2024, Jahrgang: 67, Heft: 1, Pages: 1-10 |
| ISSN: | 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1780 |
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| Verfasserangaben: | I. Dönnhoff, D. Kindermann, S. Stahl-Toyota, J. Nowak, M. Orth, H.-C. Friederich, and C. Nikendei |
| Zusammenfassung: | BackgroundSince its introduction in the diagnostic manuals DSM-5 and ICD-11, the construct of personality functioning has gained increasing attention. However, it remains unclear which factors might predict improvement in personality functioning.MethodsWe examined a sample of 648 completed psychodynamic psychotherapies conducted by 172 therapists at the Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy. A machine learning approach was used to filter for variables that are relevant for the prediction of the improvement of personality functioning from a broad data set of variables collected at the beginning of each psychodynamic psychotherapy.ResultsOn average, we found an improvement of 0.24 (SD = 0.48) in the OPD-SQ. This corresponds to a medium effect in the improvement of personality functioning. Patients with initially high impairment experienced particularly large improvements. Overall, we found a large number of variables that proved to be predictive for the improvement of personality functioning. Limitations in social activity due to physical and emotional problems proved to be one of the most important predictors of improvement. Most of the effect sizes were small.ConclusionsOverall, the improvement in personality functioning during psychotherapy is determined more by the sum of a large number of small effects than by individual variables. In particular, variables that capture social areas of life proved to be robust predictors. |
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| ISSN: | 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1780 |