RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE FRENCH VE RSION OF THE INTERPERSONAL DEPENDENCY INVENTORY OF HIRSCHFELD ET-AL (IDI) - STUDY ON 202 UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS

The Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (IDI) is a Likert scale compose d of 48 items divided into 3 sub-scales rating emotional reliance of a nother person (ER), lack of social confidence (LSS) and assertion of a utonomy (AUTO). 202 university students filled our the scale. A princi pal components analysis followed by a varimax rotation showed a three- factor solution. The Cronbach alpha coefficients of the sub-scales wer e respectively 0.85, 0.72 and 0.76. Another studies, in psychiatric su bjects, are needed to confirm our results.