Temporal coherence of criteria for four personality disorders.

abstract

• This study sought to investigate the coherence of changes observed in diagnostic criteria for borderline, schizotypal, obsessive-compulsive, and avoidant personality disorders. Five hundred, forty-nine patients were independently evaluated 2 years apart, and correlations of observed changes in each diagnostic criterion with changes in other criteria were examined to determine if there was within-syndrome consistency in these changes. The observed changes in criteria were consistent within syndrome (median alpha = 0.72 across 4 disorders), and reasonably specific to that syndrome relative to the other disorders. The results support the validity of these criterion sets as representing coherent syndromes.

authors

• Morey, Leslie

published proceedings

• J Pers Disord

author list (cited authors)

• Morey, L. C., Skodol, A. E., Grilo, C. M., Sanislow, C. A., Zanarini, M. C., Shea, M. T., Gunderson, J. G., & McGlashan, T. H.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Morey, Leslie C||Skodol, Andrew E||Grilo, Carlos M||Sanislow, Charles A||Zanarini, Mary C||Shea, M Tracie||Gunderson, John G||McGlashan, Thomas H

publication date

• August 2004

publisher

• Guilford Publications  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Personality Disorders  Journal

keywords

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
• Disease Progression
• Humans
• Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
• Personality Assessment
• Personality Disorders
• Reproducibility Of Results
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Severity Of Illness Index
• Time Factors

PubMed Central ID

• 15342325

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1521/pedi.18.4.394.40351

start page

• 394

end page

• 398

volume

• 18

issue

• 4