Skaminventering: Ett nytt instrument att mäta skam

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to psychometrically test a Swedish translation of The Shame Inventory, originally developed by Rizvi (2010). Another purpose was to investigate the link between shame and psychopathology and specifically to borderline personality disorder. The psychometric properties of the Swedish version of The Shame Inventory were investigated, as well as the ability of the instrument to differentiate between a clinical and a non-clinical group. The clinical group consisted of 26 patients from a mental health daycare center. The non-clinical group consisted of 107 individuals from a convenience sample, which 73 of them were a group from a Swedish study by Magnusson (2012). The Shame Inventory shows high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent and discriminant validity. The instrument also shows a high capacity of differentiate between a clinical and non-clinical group, with a significant higher mean value in the clinical group of degree of shame. This study confirms the results and conclusion from earlier Swedish study that The Shame Inventory is a useful instrument which seems to measure different aspects of shame and constitutes a valuable contribution both for clinical and research purposes.