Dimensional Measures and the Five-Factor Model: Clinical Implications and Research Directions

Personality Disorders in Older Adults: Emerging Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-117

  Duberstein, Paul R ^a   Seidlitz, Larry ^a   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a   Conwell, Yeates ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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