Generalized social phobia and avoidant personality disorder: Meaningful distinction or useless duplication?

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-19

  Chambless, Dianne L ^a   Fydrich, Thomas ^b   Rodebaugh, Thomas L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidant personality disorder; Axis II; Generalized social phobia; Personality disorder; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE PLAYING; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 38949128690     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20266     Document Type: Article

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