Personality disorders and adult attachment dimensions in a mixed psychiatric sample: A multivariate study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-37

  Fossati, Andrea ^a,b   Feeney, Judith A ^c   Donati, Deborah ^a   Donini, Michela ^b   Novella, Liliana ^b   Bagnato, Maria ^b   Carretta, Ilaria ^b   Leonardi, Barbara ^b   Mirabelli, Sara ^b   Maffei, Cesare ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0037247061     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200301000-00006     Document Type: Article

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