A couple months ago I did the SWAP-200 assessment (faked being a psych to get access - no identity fraud, promise!) and my results were interesting... I think they're not as accurate as they should be because the test made me rank the items from 1-7 (I think) and then I had to match a certain number of items to scores (e.g. I needed, say, 10 items scored 5 and 8 items scored 6, so if I'd ranked 10 items 6 and 8 items 5 I'd have to choose 2 items to re-rank them as lower than I initially scored them. And by the time you've done that for like 100 items you get pretty bored and start choosing things at random to reassess).
T-scores above 50 are clinically significant (50 being the mean), scores of 55-59 are traits, and 60+ are diagnosable disorders.
'Psychological health index' scores are usually 50; scores of above 50 are healthier and scores below 50 indicate personality dysfunction. My score was 49.1, which is pretty typical.
According to my results I have traits of StPD (score of 58.4), could almost be diagnosed with traits of Depressive PD, and clinically significant but not diagnosable traits of SzPD, AvPD, and DPD.
I have traits of avoidant (score of 57.1), schizoid-schizotypal (55.5), & borderline-dysregulated (55.5) personality syndromes, and clinically significant traits of dysphoric-depressed and high functioning depressive personality syndromes. The SWAP-200 personality syndromes are alternatives to the DSM categories.
I have very high scores in thought disorder (62.6), and extremely high scores in dissociation (73) (no surprise there). Also above the mean in scores of dysphoria and almost above the mean in obsessionality.
Like I said, I'm not putting too much stock in these results due to the ranking system (I mean, I understand why they get clinicians to do that, since it rules out false positives - but then I think it turns into people getting false negatives instead). But the thought disorder and AvPD & DPD results are interesting since I hadn't picked up on that (the traits I do have I would attribute to StPD, SzPD traits, and autism & trauma / codependency). And it was interesting that I didn't get diagnoses of anything, seeing as how much I relate to / have self-diagnosed with StPD (and have a clinical diagnosis of BPD!). And, of course, I was the "clinician" who scored it so it's definitely not as accurate as it would be if I took the test with an actual professional scoring it. Still, interesting results!










