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An Integrative Dimensional Classification of Personality Disorder
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Widiger, Thomas A.; Livesley, W. John; Clark, Lee Anna – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Psychological assessment research concerns how to describe psychological dysfunction in ways that are both valid and useful. Recent advances in assessment research hold the promise of facilitating significant improvements in description and diagnosis. One such contribution is in the classification of personality disorder symptomatology. The…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Psychological Evaluation, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Brain Modules, Personality Layers, Planes of Being, Spiral Structures, and the Equally Implausible Distinction between TCI-R "Temperament" and "Character" Scales: Reply to Cloninger (2008)
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Farmer, Richard F.; Goldberg, Lewis R. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
In this reply the authors address comments by C. R. Cloninger (2008) related to their report (R. F. Farmer & L. R. Goldberg, 2008) on the psychometric properties of the revised Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R) and a short inventory derivative, the TCI-140. Even though Cloninger's psychobiological model has undergone substantial…
Descriptors: Personality, Psychometrics, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals)
Longitudinal Construct Validity of Brief Symptom Inventory Subscales in Schizophrenia
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Long, Jeffrey D.; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Brekke, John S.; Test, Mary Ann; Greenberg, Jan – Psychological Assessment, 2007
Longitudinal validity of Brief Symptom Inventory subscales was examined in a sample (N = 318) with schizophrenia-related illness measured at baseline and every 6 months for 3 years. Nonlinear factor analysis of items was used to test graded response models (GRMs) for subscales in isolation. The models varied in their within-time and between-times…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Schizophrenia, Factor Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5): Constructs and MMPI-2 Scales.
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Harkness, Allan R.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) is a dimensional descriptive system for personality and its disorders. The development of the scales, based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), is described. Results with 3 clinical samples (total 1,680), a college sample of 2,928, and a normative sample of 2,567 support the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Models, Norms
Dimensions of Personality Disorder and Their Relationships to the Big Five Dimensions of Personality.
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Schroeder, Marsha L.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1992
Dimensional measures of aspects of personality disorders (PD) were developed. Convergence of these measures with the "Big Five" personality factors was studied in 300 general population subjects. Results suggest substantial similarity between the five factors and PD measures, though the latter cannot be entirely subsumed by the Big Five…
Descriptors: Adults, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Mental Disorders
Assessing the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) in Adolescents: New MMPI-A Scales.
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McNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The development of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) scales to measure the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), a model of personality, is reported. Preliminary scales were refined with the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 and a clinical sample of 713 adolescents, and their construct validity was supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Models
On the Identification of Patterns of Substance Abuse with the MMPI-A.
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Gallucci, Nicholas T. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The contributions of specific scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) to the classification of 180 adolescent substance abusers into groups characterized by aspects of behavioral control were studied. Seven scales made significant contributions to the classification of substance abusers into three groups, with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Construct Validity