Brief Histrionic Personality Scale (BHPS)
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
We all know what an attention seeker is. Some types of attention seeking can be associated with mental problems knowns as Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) . This disorder affects around 3% of the population. One of the traits involved is commonly known as attention seeking . The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (10th Revision) lists the following symptoms :
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Source & citation
Ferguson & Negy (2014). Development of a brief screening questionnaire for histrionic personality symptoms. Personality & Individual Differences, 66 , 124-127.
Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD)
following symptoms
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