The clinical significance of single features of borderline personality disorder: Anger, affective instability, impulsivity, and chronic emptiness in psychiatric outpatients

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 261-270

  Ellison, William D ^a   Rosenstein, Lia ^a   Chelminski, Iwonai ^a   Dalrymple, Kristy ^a   Zimmerman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; OUTPATIENTS;

EID: 84962045561     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 19432763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_193     Document Type: Article

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