Article
Phenotypic and genetic structure of traits delineating personality disorder.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Oct 1998
Livesley W J, Jang K L, Vernon P A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The evidence suggests that personality traits are hierarchically organized with more specific or lower-order traits combining to form more generalized higher-order traits. Agreement exists across studies regarding the lower-order traits that delineate personality disorder but not the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Diseases in Twins
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Multivariate Analysis
- Personality
- Personality Assessment
- Personality Disorders
- Personality Inventory
- Phenotype