Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006
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The Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006 is a psychometric tool used for diagnosing personality dysfunctions that contribute to the development of neurotic disorders. The use of the questionnaire may facilitate the diagnosis of neurotic disorder, as well as make it easier to differentiate between neurotic and pseudoneurotic syndromes, e.g. reaction to stress. Moreover, the questionnaire enables evaluation of changes occurring in the course of treatment.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
The questionnaire has been created by Jerzy W. Aleksandrowicz, Katarzyna Klasa, Jerzy A. Sobański and Dorota Stolarska in the Department of Psychotherapy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków, Poland.[1][2][3]
The questionnaire consists of 243 items that require positive or negative answer. They determine the values of 24 scales that describe areas related to the development of neurotic disorders, as well as the value of X-KON index that describes the global intensity of neurotic personality. Currently, only the Polish and Ukrainian versions of KON-2006 are available, however a number of studies based on the tool has been published in English.[1][2][3][11]
Scales
The following working (approximate) names were given to KON-2006 scales:[1][2][3]
- Feeling of being dependent on the environment
- Asthenia
- Negative self-esteem
- Impulsiveness
- Difficulties with decision making
- Sense of alienation
- Demobilization
- Tendency to take risks
- Difficulties in emotional relations
- Lack of vitality
- Conviction of own resourcelessness in life
- Sense of lack of control
- Deficit in internal locus of control
- Imagination, indulging in fiction
- Sense of guilt
- Difficulties in interpersonal relations
- Envy
- Narcissistic attitude
- Sense of being in danger
- Exaltation
- Irrationality
- Meticulousness
- Ponderings
- Sense of being overloaded