Diagnostic agreement between clinicians and clients: The convergent and discriminant validity of the swap-200 and MCMI-III personality disorder scales

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 796-812

  Gritti, Emanuela S ^a   Samuel, Douglas B ^b   Lang, Margherita ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Associazione Per la Ricerca in Psicologia (ARP)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BOOK; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY TEST; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MANUALS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85000400656     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 19432763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_231     Document Type: Article

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