THE STRUCTURE OF DSIII-IV-TR PERSONALITY DISORDER DIAGNOSES IN NESARC: A REANALYSIS

Trull, Timothy J.; Verges, Alvaro; Wood, Phillip K.; Sher, Kenneth J.

Abstract

Cox, Clara, Worobec, and Grant (2012) recently presented results from a series of analyses aimed at identifying the factor structure underlying the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) personality diagnoses assessed in the large NESARC study. Cox et al. (2012) concluded that the best fitting model was one that modeled three lower-order factors (the three clusters of PDs as outlined by DSM-IV-TR), which in turn loaded on a single PD higher-order factor. Our reanalyses of the NESARC Wave 1 and Wave 2 data for personality disorder diagnoses revealed that the best fitting model was that of a general PD factor that spans each of the ten DSM-IV PD diagnoses, and our reanalyses do not support the three-cluster hierarchical structure outlined by Cox et al. (2012) and DSM-IV-TR. Finally, we note the importance of modeling the Wave 2 assessment method factor in analyses of NESARC PD data.

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Título según WOS: ID WOS:000327282100003 Not found in local WOS DB
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Volumen: 27
Número: 6
Editorial: Guilford Publications Inc.
Fecha de publicación: 2013
Página de inicio: 727
Página final: 734
DOI:

10.1521/pedi_2013_27_107

Notas: ISI