Personality disorder assessment: The challenge of construct validity

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 205-231

  Clark, Lee Anna ^a   Livesley, W John ^b   Morey, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0030709353     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.1997.11.3.205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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