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Complete the official public-domain CAT-PD-SF v1.1 to produce 33 descriptive maladaptive-trait scale means. The form includes self-harm, suicide, violence, and unusual-experience content and is intended for qualified clinical or research use with a safety protocol.

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Maladaptive personality traits are enduring patterns of feeling, thinking, and relating that can become distressing or interfere with daily life. They are dimensional: a person can endorse more or less of a trait without crossing a universal line into a personality disorder. Diagnosis requires a qualified clinician to consider persistence, context, impairment, culture, other conditions, and the whole person.

The CAT-PD Static Form, Version 1.1 is a 216-item adult self-report inventory covering 33 traits. Its scales range from affective lability, anxiousness, and depressiveness to relationship insecurity, rigidity, risk taking, self harm, unusual beliefs, and workaholism. The breadth is useful for research and qualified assessment, but it also makes the form long and emotionally demanding.

The profile can describe The profile cannot decide by itself
Relative endorsement across 33 named trait scales.Whether a personality disorder or any other diagnosis is present.
Which item groups deserve closer professional review.Treatment, employment, eligibility, legal status, or risk clearance.
Continuous scale means on the shared 1-to-5 response scale.Population percentiles, normal/abnormal categories, or diagnostic severity.

Several statements concern self-harm, suicidality, aggression, and unusual experiences. Any Self Harm response above the minimum answer needs prompt direct review, regardless of the eventual scale mean. A low average across other traits never cancels a current safety concern.

This form is intended for qualified clinical or research settings with informed consent, private handling, and an active safety-response plan. If thoughts or urges feel immediate, specific, hard to resist, or safety is uncertain, contact local emergency services now and stay with a trusted person while help is arranged.

How to Use This Tool:

Set aside enough uninterrupted time and complete the form privately under a qualified professional's or research protocol's safety plan.

  1. Read the sensitive-content and privacy notice before choosing I understand — start 216-item assessment. Use Preview example profile instead when you only need to inspect the result format.
  2. Rate how true each statement generally is, from Very untrue of me to Very true of me. Keep the same time frame and self-description standard throughout the form.
  3. Pause for direct human review if any Self Harm statement receives an answer other than Very untrue of me. Follow the displayed safety guidance before continuing with general profile interpretation.
  4. Finish all 216 statements to calculate the 33 scale means. An incomplete response set produces no final profile.
  5. Review the scale means with the item ledger and the qualified professional or research protocol. Do not convert the highest scales into diagnoses or risk labels.

Interpreting Results:

Every scale mean runs from 1 to 5 after reverse-keying. A larger mean means stronger endorsement of that scale's named trait content in this response set. The values are not percentiles, standard scores, diagnostic cutoffs, or comparisons with the community and patient samples reported in the source.

  • Start with safety guidance. It has priority over every scale mean and profile comparison.
  • Read elevated-looking values as topics for review, not as diagnoses or proof of impairment.
  • Compare scales cautiously because they contain different numbers of items, even though their reported means share a 1-to-5 range.
  • Use item answers, current circumstances, duration, functioning, collateral information, and other assessment evidence to understand a profile.
  • Do not infer that a mean near 3 is clinically average. No representative norm or classification band is applied.

Technical Details:

The 216 responses use a five-point truth scale. Of the items, 181 are direct-keyed and 35 are reverse-keyed. Each of the 33 reported outputs is the arithmetic mean of the keyed items assigned to that scale, which allows scales containing 5 to 10 items to remain on the same theoretical 1-to-5 range.

Formula Core:

A direct-keyed response keeps its raw value. A reverse-keyed response uses 6 minus the raw value. For scale d, the mean Md divides the sum of its keyed scores by the number of items nd.

ki = xi direct-keyed ki = 6-xi reverse-keyed Md = ∑i∈dkind
Items per scale Scales Mean range
5Peculiarity; Risk Taking1 to 5
6Affective Lability; Anger; Anhedonia; Depressiveness; Domineering; Exhibitionism; Fantasy Proneness; Manipulativeness; Mistrust; Non-Perseverance; Non-Planfulness; Perfectionism; Romantic Disinterest; Social Withdrawal; Submissiveness; Workaholism1 to 5
7Anxiousness; Callousness; Emotional Detachment; Grandiosity; Health Anxiety; Irresponsibility; Norm Violation; Relationship Insecurity; Rudeness; Self Harm; Unusual Beliefs; Unusual Experiences1 to 5
8Cognitive Problems; Hostile Aggression1 to 5
10Rigidity1 to 5

For a six-item scale with keyed contributions 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, and 5, the mean is 3.00. Means retain their full calculation precision and are displayed to two decimal places. There are no score bands, thresholds, weights, imputation rules, or overall CAT-PD total.

Rule Core:

The safety rule operates on raw responses to the seven Self Harm items, not on the completed Self Harm mean. This prevents averaging from hiding one consequential answer.

Raw Self Harm response Rule outcome Relationship to scale means
Very untrue of me (1)No direct-review rule from that item.The item still contributes 1 to the Self Harm mean.
Any response from 2 through 5Show support and emergency guidance and require prompt direct review.The rule takes priority and is never cancelled by a low mean elsewhere.

Safety, Limitations, and Privacy:

A CAT-PD-SF profile is not a crisis assessment. Direct conversation and local professional judgment are required whenever self-harm, suicidality, violence, or immediate safety is a concern.

  • Any Self Harm endorsement above the minimum answer needs prompt review by a qualified professional, even if the Self Harm mean is low.
  • If danger feels immediate or safety is uncertain, contact local emergency services and stay with a trusted person while help is arranged.
  • All responses and results stay in the current browser tab and are not sent to a server.
  • Sharing links are disabled because the 216 responses are highly sensitive.
  • Reloading or restarting clears the in-memory responses and current result. Exported files remain wherever the user saves them.

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