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This article describes the initial steps involved in developing the Scales of Psychological Capacities (SPC) that the authors propose as an approach to assessing changes in personality structure. A “psychological capacity” is an accessible psychological resource that contributes to the achievement of adaptive intrapsychic and interpersonal functioning. The authors constructed thirty-eight four-point scales to be used to rate degrees of departure from the
Drs. DeWitt, Hartley, Rosenberg, Zilberg, and Wallerstein are on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco. More complete descriptions of the authors appear in the previous article.
This research has been supported by grants and donations from the Columbia Foundation, the Swig Foundation, Mrs. Patricia Costello, Dr. Cloyce Duncan, Dr. Norman Stone, Mr. Fred Whitman, Mr. Al Wilsey, and three anonymous donors.
optimal presence of the seventeen defined psychological capacities. In a Content Validity Study, sixty-two expert judges (around the world) in psychoanalytic theory and clinical research rated the scales as providing comprehensive coverage of manifestations of structural change. Judges' ratings and comments were used to make revisions in the scales.