Dimensional models of personality: The five-factor model and the DSM-5

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-146

  Trull, Timothy J ^a   Widiger, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensional; DSM 5; DSM IV TR; Five factor model; Personality; Personality disorder; Trait

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALTRUISM; ANHEDONIA; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; AUTHORITY; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CREATIVITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DSM-5; DSM-IV-TR; EMPLOYEE; EXTRAVERSION; FIVE FACTOR MODEL; HEREDITY; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLECT; JOB SATISFACTION; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEGLIGENCE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SCHIZOIDISM; SELF CONCEPT; WORKER;

DIMENSIONAL; DSM-5; DSM-IV-TR; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; TRAIT;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 84888027758     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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