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Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: shifting to a dimensional model.

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It may be time to consider a shift to a dimensional classification of personality disorder that would help address the failures of the existing diagnostic categories as well as contribute to an integration of the psychiatric diagnostic manual with psychology's research on general personality structure.
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The diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were developed in the spirit of a traditional medical model that considers mental disorders to be qualitatively distinct conditions (see, e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Work is now beginning on the fifth edition of this influential diagnostic manual. It is perhaps time to consider a fundamental shift in how psychopathology is conceptualized and diagnosed. More specifically, it may be time to consider a shift to a dimensional classification of personality disorder that would help address the failures of the existing diagnostic categories as well as contribute to an integration of the psychiatric diagnostic manual with psychology's research on general personality structure.

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Correspondence between self-report and interview-based assessments of antisocial personality disorder

TL;DR: PDQ-4 and PAI scores related strongly to SCID-II symptom counts, indicating these measures convey useful clinical information about the severity of offenders' ASPD pathology, which was relatively invariant across gender, race, and site.
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Dependent personality disorder: comparing an expert generated and empirically derived five-factor model personality disorder count.

TL;DR: A meta-analytic review of the relations between the FFM facets and Dependent PD was conducted and used to create a revised, empirically based FFM DPD profile and count, which was able to recreate the patterns of comorbidity typically found when using DSM-IV measures of DPD.
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Construct validity in psychological tests.

TL;DR: The present interpretation of construct validity is not "official" and deals with some areas where the Committee would probably not be unanimous, but the present writers are solely responsible for this attempt to explain the concept and elaborate its implications.
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