I am looking for the questionnaires with good psychometric parameters, which: 1) maybe used in clinical or non-clinical populations; 2) may be based on categorical or dimensional models of personality disorders.
Screening is my preference. I intend to compare narratives (stories) of people with high and low histrionic and obsessive-compulsive features in non-clinical population (and people with historionic and obsessive-compulsive disorders - clinical group). I am going to conduct an interveiw, but do not have any possibility to assess features/disorders with it. Does it change your answer?
Since you specify those two personality disorders, I'm guessing that you want to test certain psychodynamic formulations (see, for example, Storr's book Neurotic Styles, or Mardi Horowitz's work on short-term dynamic psychotherapy of stress response syndromes). Lazare et al. (1966) developed a simple checklist measuring these two personality styles (along with an "oral" style). A version of this known as the Basic Character Inventory (Svenn Torgersen, 1980?) has been used in a number of studies over the years. I don't have a copy, but one of the researchers who has used it might be able to help.
Sid Blatt's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ) gets at a similar distinction (here termed "anaclitic" vs. "introjective" depression), as does Beck's distinction between "sociotropy" and "autonomy" (the Personal Styles Questionnaire, I think?). The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) is another promising direction. Some of the literature on the DEQ, IIP, and Personal Styles Questionnaire was reviewed by Mattias Desmet in a 2007 dissertation: http://www.psychoanalysis.ugent.be/pages/nl/artikels/artikels%20Mattias%20Desmet/Doctoraat%20Mattias%20Desmet.pdf
I agree with an earlier commentator that the MCMI-III might work, though it is very strongly linked to the DSM criteria. So might the Anxiety and Repression scales of the MMPI-2, though they are totally unlinked with the DSM. (I'm not sure how closely you want to adhere to the DSM here, as opposed to underlying psychodynamics.)
I agree with Stephen. if your approach has to be dynamic using the MIllon's MCMI. Yours sincerely.
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