Trait-state artifacts and the diagnosis of personality disorders
| Autor: | John Gartner, Robert C. Young, Armand W. Loranger, Alison Fishman Gartner, Virginia L. Susman, Judith Herzig, Robert C. Abrams, Mark F. Lenzenweger, Gary K. Zammit |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Adolescent Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Sadistic personality disorder Absorption (psychology) Personality Assessment Personality Disorders Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Personality 16PF Questionnaire Humans Psychiatry media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Depressive Disorder Middle Aged medicine.disease Personality disorders Anxiety Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Multivariate Analysis Female Personality Assessment Inventory Psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Archives of general psychiatry. 48(8) |
| ISSN: | 0003-990X |
| Popis: | • The multiaxial nature of DSM-III has stimulated interest in the personality disorders. There are also indications that it has produced an increase in their diagnosis. However, there is clinical and psychometric evidence that a personality evaluation undertaken while a patient is in a dysphoric mental state may distort or misrepresent traits, the so-called trait-state problem in personality assessment. The present study appears to be the first to investigate this phenomenon with a clinical interview rather than with personality tests. It examined the effect of anxiety, depression, and level of global impairment on the diagnosis of personality disorder and the assessment of the criteria for the individual Axis II disorders. Eighty-four patients, most of whom had current Axis I diagnoses, were evaluated by seven experienced clinicians with a new semistructured interview, the Personality Disorder Examination. The sample evidenced a trend toward acknowledging fewer maladaptive personality traits at follow-up than at entry. There was no evidence, however, that anxiety or depression had affected either the diagnosis of a personality disorder or the criteria associated with most of the individual personality disorders. |
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