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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
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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 higher-order traits. This study seeks to identify the higher-order structure of personality disorder by examining the...
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