Personality disorder not otherwise specified: Searching for an empirically based diagnostic threshold

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 674-689

  Pagan, Jason L ^a   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^a,d   Whitmore, Maria J ^b   Turkheimer, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLDIER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STUDENT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS;

EID: 33645236355     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 0885579X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2005.19.6.674     Document Type: Article

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