This article examines the relationship between personality disorder (PD) symptoms and personality traits using a variety of distributional assumptions. Prior work in this area relies almost exclusively on linear models that treat PD symptoms as normally distributed and continuous. However, these assumptions rarely hold, and thus the results of prior studies are potentially biased. Here we explo...

personality disorder does not suddenly emerge at age eighteen years old. there are obvious links between early childhood temperament and the development of personality traits in later childhood. nevertheless, clinicians do not routinely assess aspects of a child’s personality as part of a mental health examination. this may stem from a fear of ‘labelling’ a child should any problems in personal...

Reflective functioning in patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: an examination of the effects of comorbid personality disorders by Tempe A. Watts Advisers: Diana Diamond, Ph.D. and Barbara Milrod, M.D. This study examined reflective functioning (RF) in patients who experience a combination of panic and personality disorders (PD). Despite broadly accepted beliefs that comorbi...

The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of comorbidity of DSM-III-R anxiety disorders and personality disorders (PD). Two-hundred subjects were independently interviewed with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) and the Personality Disorder Examination (PDE) face-to-face by two experienced clinicians. One-hundred and forty-six also completed the Personality Diagnosit...

Basic personality traits and specific behavior characteristics were assess in 39 patients (12 to 15 years old) having chronic tension-type headache. Patients were referred for clinical examination to the Neural-pediatrics Ward of the Department of Pediatrics, Osijek, Croatia. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire--Juniors (EPQ-J), a new Croatian personality Questionnaire of domination, aggression, ...