Interpersonal dysfunction in personality disorders: A meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT: Personality disorders are defined in the current psychiatric diagnostic system as pervasive, inflexible, and stable patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and interacting with others. Questions regarding the validity and reliability of the current personality disorder diagnoses prompted a reconceptualization of personality pathology in the most recent edition of the psychiatric diagnostic manual, in an appendix of emerging models for future study. To evaluate the construct and discriminant validity of the current personality disorder diagnoses, we conducted a quantitative synthesis of the existing empirical research on associations between personality disorders and interpersonal functioning, defined using the interpersonal circumplex model (comprising orthogonal dimensions of agency and

SUBMITTER: Wilson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507693 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature