A new approach to the assessment of structural personality pathology: Theory-driven profile interpretation of the Dutch Short Form of the MMPI

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth H.M. Eurelings-Bontekoe ◽  
Anne Onnink ◽  
Melody M. Williams ◽  
Wim M. Snellen
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
New Approach

The rocky road from Axis I to Axis II: Extending the network model of diagnostic comorbidity to personality pathology

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 151-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Axis Ii ◽  
Axis I

AbstractAlthough the network model represents a promising new approach to conceptualizing comorbidity in psychiatric diagnosis, the model applies most directly to Axis I symptom disorders; the degree to which the model generalizes to Axis II disorders remains open to question. This commentary addresses that issue, discussing opportunities and challenges in applying the network model to DSM-diagnosed personality pathology.

scholarly journals Mechanistic Science: A New Approach to Comprehensive Psychopathology Research That Relates Psychological and Biological Phenomena

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel G. Thomas ◽  
Paul B. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Reward Processing ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
Mechanistic Approach

Efforts to understand the causes of psychopathology have remained stifled in part because current practices do not clearly describe how psychological constructs differ from biological phenomena and how to integrate them in unified explanations. The present article extends recent work in philosophy of science by proposing a framework called mechanistic science as a promising way forward. This approach maintains that integrating psychological and biological phenomena involves demonstrating how psychological functions are implemented in biological structures. Successful early attempts to advance mechanistic explanations of psychological phenomena are reviewed, and lessons are derived to show how the framework can be applied to a range of clinical psychological phenomena, including gene by environment findings, computational models of reward processing in schizophrenia, and self-related processes in personality pathology. Pursuing a mechanistic approach can ultimately facilitate more productive and successful collaborations across a range of disciplines.

scholarly journals Proposing an Index for Cross-District Comparison for Citizen e-Services Provision

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3601-3605
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Related Services ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Service Areas ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
The Government

E-Government, the short form of Electronic Government, essentially points to the use of information technologies (typically the Internet) to facilitate the delivery of government information and services, restructure administrative procedures, and enhance citizen participation. E-participation implies “ICT-supported participation in processes involved in government and governance”. E-participation is firmly identified with E-government and E-administration interest. Egovernment estimation techniques are not another subject in logical writing. Various international organizations create indices for cross-district comparisons. the new approach introduced to propose a new index called Citizen e-Services Provision Index (CePI). CePI is nothing but composite measure of the quality and capacity of the government in providing ICT related services to its citizens and the level of participation of the citizens in these facilities. This index is a count of how much effort government is keeping in implementing e-governance services, in what areas it is implementing and how well the citizens are participating in these services. We consider four parts of a native for which administrations must be given by the legislature — social, economic, physical and personal. Great administrations by the legislature for these four angles and the e-Participation of the residents in every one of those administrations will plainly infer a decent personal satisfaction of natives and subsequently a high CePI esteem. This paper studies various service areas of implementation of each of these aspects, e-Participation in the services, and a method to calculate the CePI

Assessing Other-Directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical Playfulness in Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
René T. Proyer ◽  
Kay Brauer ◽  
Annegret Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Adult Playfulness ◽  
Nomological Validity ◽  
Zero Acquaintance

Abstract. Adult playfulness is an individual differences variable that allows people to (re-)frame everyday situations in a way to make them entertaining, stimulating, and/or interesting. Recently, a structural model with four facets (i.e., Other-directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical; OLIW) and a subjective measure with 28 items have been developed. The main aim of this study is to test a 12-item short form (OLIW-S). In Study 1, we retrieved the 4-factorial OLIW structure in three independently collected samples ( N = 1,168; 696 self-ratings and 166 dyads providing reciprocal self- and peer-ratings). We found satisfactory psychometric properties for research purposes, and there was convergent and nomological validity with external measures of playfulness and the Big Five personality traits. Data from Sample 3 showed robust self-other agreement in all facets (.27–.52). In Study 2, N = 463 adults completed the OLIW-S and a measure for personality pathology (PID-5; shared variance 12–31%). A principal component analysis of the OLIW-S and PID-5 scales yielded two unique factors representing playfulness and personality pathology. Overall, our expectations were widely met and the OLIW-facets could be well located in comprehensive systems of both personality and personality pathology. Applications of the OLIW-S (e.g., large-scale assessments; zero-acquaintance studies) are discussed.

scholarly journals The stability of psychopathy across adolescence

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1133-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Lynam ◽  
Richard Charnigo ◽  
Terrie E. Moffitt ◽  
Adrian Raine ◽  
Rolf Loeber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Predictive Utility ◽  
Juvenile Psychopathy ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Fixed And Random Effects ◽  
Youth Study ◽  
The Stability

AbstractThe current diagnostic system suggests that personality disorder categories be applied to children and adolescents in rare circumstances because of expected changes in personality pathology across development. The present study examined the stability in personality pathology, specifically psychopathy, across childhood and adolescence. Using a short form of the CPS and mixed models incorporating fixed and random effects, we examined the reliability, individual stability, mean-level stability, and predictive utility of juvenile psychopathy as a function of age (i.e., from 7 to 17 years old) in over 1,500 boys from the three cohorts of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. If adolescent development contributes to instability in personality pathology, large age-related fluctuations in reliability, stability, and predictive utility should be observed, particularly in the latter part of adolescence when normative changes are hypothesized to influence levels of psychopathy. Such fluctuations were not observed. In general, juvenile psychopathy could be reliably assessed beginning in childhood, was fairly stable across short and long intervals, showed little mean-level fluctuation, and predicted delinquency across adolescence. These results suggest that concerns about large changes in personality pathology across childhood and adolescence may be overstated. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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