Comorbidity and heterogeneity: Two challenges for personality pathology research.

ABSTRACT: We critique the general state of methodological rigor in contemporary personality pathology research, focusing on challenges in study design, assessment, and data analysis resulting from two pervasive problems: comorbidity and heterogeneity. To inform our understanding of this literature, we examined every article published in the two main specialty journals for personality pathology research-Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment and the Journal of Personality Disorders-in the 18-month period from January 2020 to June 2021 (a total of 23 issues and 197 articles). Our review of this database indicated that only three forms of personality pathology have generated substantial attention in the recent literature: borderline personality disorder (featured in 93 art

SUBMITTER: Watson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature