Preliminary Development and Content Validation of Self-Repair Training for Women with Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
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self-repair, training package, borderline personality disorder, womenAbstract
Self-repair training for women affected by borderline personality disorder has the potential to provide a foundation for the expansion of educational and therapeutic interventions for this population. The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and conducting a preliminary content validation of self-repair training for women with symptoms of borderline personality disorder. This study was qualitative in nature and employed a conventional content analysis approach. The research context included scientific resources (including books, articles, and research dissertations), and the sample consisted of sources related to the principles and techniques of self-repair training. A content analysis recording form was used to extract the techniques and principles of self-repair training. The textual data were analyzed based on the six stages introduced by Yusefi and Golparvar (2026) for developing a self-repair training package. To analyze the preliminary expert content validity, the inter-rater agreement coefficient, Content Validity Index (CVI), and Content Validity Ratio (CVR) were calculated. The findings resulted in the development of a self-repair training package consisting of 10 sessions lasting 80 to 100 minutes each, with an inter-rater agreement coefficient of 0.98, a Content Validity Index (CVI) of 1.00, and a Content Validity Ratio (CVR) of 0.99. Based on the findings of the present study regarding the self-repair training package for women with symptoms of borderline personality disorder, it is recommended that future studies evaluate the competitive effectiveness of this training package in comparison with other educational and therapeutic approaches on important variables among women with symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
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