Ambulatory assessment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder: The effect of the sampling frequency

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 238-247

  Ebner Priemer, Ulrich W ^a,b   Sawitzki, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective instability; Ambulatory assessment; Borderline personality disorder; Time interval; Time based design

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948942710     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.23.4.238     Document Type: Article

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