Clinician's judgments of the utility of the DSM-IV and five-factor models for personality disordered patients

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 463-477

  Mullins Sweatt, Stephanie N ^a   Widiger, Thomas A ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80051660925     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 19432763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2011.25.4.463     Document Type: Article

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