Personality Functioning Scale: A Scale to Assess DSM-5’s Criterion A Personality Disorders

Abstract: The Section III on Emerging Measures and Models included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, introduces a hybrid alternative approach, dimensional-categorical, to diagnose personality disorders. The Criterion A establishes the assessment of the impairment in personality functioning in terms of two dimensions: self and interpersonal. The present study was aimed at developing a short scale to measure both dimensions. The sample was composed of 342 adults from Buenos Aires city and its outskirts, with ages ranging from 19 to 82 years old (M = 39.90, SD = 13.75). Data were gathered using the Personality Functioning Scale, developed in this study, as well as the Personality Inventory for DSM‐5 Brief Form, the Mental Health Continuum Short Form, and the Symptom Check List-27. A principal components analysis conducted on 28 items found 2 factors, interpersonal and self. Internal consistency, estimated by ordinal Alphas, achieved values betwee.... https://interpersona.psychopen.eu/index.php/interpersona/article/view/3925

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Personality Functioning Scale: A Scale to Assess DSM-5’s Criterion A Personality Disorders ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; day:02 ; month:07 ; year:2020 ; Interpersona ; 14, Heft 1 (02.07.2020)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Juliana Beatriz Stover ; Mercedes Fernández Liporace ; Alejandro Castro Solano

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ijpr.v14i1.3925
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101214243516314424
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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