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Refining the phenotype of borderline personality disorder: Diagnostic criteria and beyond.
Personality disorders - 1 Jul 2012
Hallquist Michael N, Pilkonis Paul A
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a heterogeneous disorder, and previous analyses have parsed its phenotype in terms of subtypes or underlying traits. We refined the BPD construct by testing a range of latent variable models to ascertain whether BPD is composed of traits, latent classes, or both. We also tested whether subtypes of BPD could be distinguished by anger, aggressiveness, antisocial behavior,...
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