Assessment of Borderline Personality Features in Population Samples: Is the Personality Assessment Inventory-Borderline Features Scale Measurement Invariant Across Sex and Age?

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-130

  De Moor, Marleen H M ^a   Distel, Marijn A ^a   Trull, Timothy J ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

borderline personality disorder; measurement invariance; population samples; sex and age differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY BORDERLINE FEATURES SCALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 65249169299     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014502     Document Type: Article

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