Clinical Utility of the Five-Factor Model of Personality Disorder

Journal of Personality

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1615-1639

  Mullins Sweatt, Stephanie N ^a   Lengel, Gregory J ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84870705220     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00774.x     Document Type: Article

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