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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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Predicting problematic alcohol use with the DSM-5 alternative model of personality pathology.

TL;DR: Findings support the general validity of this new personality disorder diagnostic system and suggest important age effects in the relationship between traits and problematic alcohol use.
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A comprehensive comparison of the ICD-11 and DSM-5 section III personality disorder models.

TL;DR: The current study considers the convergent, discriminant, and structural validity of the relationship of the LPFS and PID-5 with the SASPD, PiCD, and BPS to determine if the BPS obtains incremental validity in accounting for borderline personality disorder variance above and beyond the trait models.
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Using Clinician-Rated Five-Factor Model Data to Score the DSM–IV Personality Disorders

TL;DR: Overall, the FFM PD counts, scored using clinician ratings of the Five-factor model, appeared to function like the DSM–IV PDs, thus suggesting that the use of a dimensional trait model of personality in the DSM—V may still allow for an assessment of the DSM-IV PD constructs.
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Examining the Dynamic Structure of Daily Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior at Multiple Levels of Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, structural models are applied to daily diary data (Median = 94 days) of maladaptive behaviors collected from a sample (N = 101) of individuals diagnosed with personality disorders.
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The Longitudinal Relationship of Personality Traits and Disorders

TL;DR: This study explores the extent to which relevant personality traits are stable in individuals diagnosed with 4 personality disorders and examines the assumption that these personality disorders are stable by virtue of stable personality traits.
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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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