Paradigms of Personality Assessment and Level of Personality Functioning in Criterion A of the AMPD

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron L. Pincus ◽  
Michael J. Roche
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Criterion A

Neurobiology of Criterion A: self and interpersonal personality functioning

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine C Herpertz ◽  
Katja Bertsch ◽  
Haang Jeung
Keyword(s):  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Criterion A

Relating DSM-5 section III personality traits to section II personality disorder diagnoses

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Morey ◽  
K. T. Benson ◽  
A. E. Skodol
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Taxonomic Structure ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Criterion A ◽  
Dsm Iv

BackgroundThe DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group formulated a hybrid dimensional/categorical model that represented personality disorders as combinations of core impairments in personality functioning with specific configurations of problematic personality traits. Specific clusters of traits were selected to serve as indicators for six DSM categorical diagnoses to be retained in this system – antisocial, avoidant, borderline, narcissistic, obsessive–compulsive and schizotypal personality disorders. The goal of the current study was to describe the empirical relationships between the DSM-5 section III pathological traits and DSM-IV/DSM-5 section II personality disorder diagnoses.MethodData were obtained from a sample of 337 clinicians, each of whom rated one of his or her patients on all aspects of the DSM-IV and DSM-5 proposed alternative model. Regression models were constructed to examine trait–disorder relationships, and the incremental validity of core personality dysfunctions (i.e. criterion A features for each disorder) was examined in combination with the specified trait clusters.ResultsFindings suggested that the trait assignments specified by the Work Group tended to be substantially associated with corresponding DSM-IV concepts, and the criterion A features provided additional diagnostic information in all but one instance.ConclusionsAlthough the DSM-5 section III alternative model provided a substantially different taxonomic structure for personality disorders, the associations between this new approach and the traditional personality disorder concepts in DSM-5 section II make it possible to render traditional personality disorder concepts using alternative model traits in combination with core impairments in personality functioning.

scholarly journals Examining criterion a: DSM–5 level of personality functioning as assessed through life story interviews.

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Cruitt ◽  
Michael J. Boudreaux ◽  
Hannah R. King ◽  
Joshua R. Oltmanns ◽  
Thomas F. Oltmanns
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Criterion A ◽  
Life Story Interviews

scholarly journals Personality functioning scale: A scale to assess DSM-5’s Criterion A personality disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Juliana Beatriz Stover ◽  
Mercedes Fernández Liporace ◽  
Alejandro Castro Solano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Check List ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Short Scale ◽  
Criterion A ◽  
Symptom Check List

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 between .92 and .86 whilst Cronbach’s Alphas were .88 and .87. Significant and positive correlations between the Personality Functioning Scale scores on the one hand, and the Personality Inventory for DSM‐5 Brief Form scores and the Symptom Check List-27 score on the other, were found. Negative correlations between PFS scores and the Mental Health Continuum Short Form were calculated. As a result, a short scale with adequate psychometric features, suitable to assess Criterion A in adult Argentinian population has been developed.

scholarly journals Level of personality functioning as a predictor of psychosocial functioning—Concurrent validity of criterion A.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Buer Christensen ◽  
Ingeborg Eikenaes ◽  
Benjamin Hummelen ◽  
Geir Pedersen ◽  
Tor-Erik Nysæter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Criterion A

Contemporary Perspectives on Rorschach Assessment

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving B. Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Applicability

Summary: In the last 20 years the advent of the Comprehensive System has developed the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) into a standardized and psychometrically sound personality assessment instrument with numerous indices that can be reliably coded, show considerable test-retest stability, and have abundant valid corollaries. Rorschach assessment has demonstrated utility in contributing to clinical diagnosis of psychopathology, providing guidelines for treatment planning and outcome evaluation, and identifying adaptive and maladaptive features of how people attend to their experience, use ideation, modulate affect, manage stress, view themselves, and relate to others. The RIM can also be effectively integrated with more structured self-report inventories in a complementary way that describes personality functioning in greater depth than would otherwise be possible. The RIM remains at present a widely used and extensively researched measure in many parts of the world. Although the inkblot method is essentially a culture-free instrument with universal applicability, further research is needed to establish cross-cultural normative data concerning its variables.

Baseline personality functioning correlates with 6 month outcome in schizophrenia

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Secondo Fassino ◽  
Andrea Pierò ◽  
Elena Mongelli ◽  
Maria Luisa Caviglia ◽  
Nadia Delsedime ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Multimodal Treatment ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Occupational Functioning ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Rating ◽  
Psychiatric Rating Scale

AbstractObjectiveThe assessment of outcome in schizophrenic patients should consider both the response to treatment and the recovery of social skills. The aim was to evaluate the outcome and related psychostructural and clinical factors in schizophrenic patients after they underwent 6 months of residential multimodal treatment.MethodsFifty-two schizophrenic patients enrolled in a multimodal treatment program were included in the study. Symptomatology and social functioning were assessed with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). The Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP) was used for the psychostructural evaluation.ResultsAfter 6 months there was a significant improvement in the global scores of BPRS, SOFAS, and some areas of KAPP. The personality (KAPP) and social-occupational functioning (SOFAS) at baseline (T0) correlated with the global score of BPRS at 6 months (T6); moreover, SOFAS at T6 correlated with BPRS and KAPP at T0 and with the illness duration.ConclusionsThe better the personality functioning in schizophrenic patients the better seems to be the response to treatment, with regard to symptoms as well as rehabilitation. Personality assessment might be useful for the individualisation of therapies, even within the context of a standardised program.

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