Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM–IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

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2009-08-01Author
Sanislow, Charles A.
Ansell, Emily B.
Grilo, Carlos M.
Markowitz, John C.
Pinto, Anthony
Yen, Shirley
Morey, Leslie C.
Little, Todd D.
Daversa, Maria
Shea, M. Tracie
Skodol, Andrew E.
McGlashan, Thomas H.
Gunderson, John G.
Zanarini, Mary C.
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American Psychological Association
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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© 2009, American Psychological Association
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Evaluation of the validity of personality disorder (PD) diagnostic constructs is important for the impending revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Prior factor analytic studies have tested these constructs in cross-sectional studies, and models have been replicated longitudinally, but no study has tested a constrained longitudinal model. The authors examined 4 PDs in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders study (schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive) over 7 time points (baseline, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, 6 years, and 10 years). Data for 2-, 4-, 6- and 10-year assessments were obtained in semistructured interviews by raters blind to prior PD diagnoses at each assessment. The latent structure of the 4 constructs was differentiated during the initial time points but became less differentiated over time as the mean levels of the constructs dropped and stability increased. Obsessive-compulsive PD became more correlated with schizotypal and borderline PD than with avoidant PD. The higher correlation among the constructs in later years may reflect greater shared base of pathology for chronic personality disorders. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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Sanislow, C. A., Little, T. D., Ansell, E. B., Grilo, C. M., Daversa, M., Markowitz, J. C., … McGlashan, T. H. (2009). Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. Journal of abnormal psychology, 118(3), 507–519. doi:10.1037/a0016478
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