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  title info:
    title: Criteria combinations in the personality disorders
    sub title: challenges associated with a polythetic diagnostic system
  name:
    name part: Cooper, Luke D.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Balsis, Steve
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Converging research on the diagnostic criteria for personality disorders (PDs) reveals that most criteria have different psychometric properties. This finding is inconsistent with the DSM-IV-TR PD diagnostic system, which weights each criterion equally. The purpose of the current study was to examine the potential effects of using equal weights for differentially-functioning criteria. Using data from over 2,100 outpatients, response patterns to the diagnostic criteria for nine PDs were analyzed and scored within an item response theory (IRT) framework. Results indicated that combinations that included the same number of endorsed criteria (the same "raw score") yielded differing estimates of PD traits, depending on which criteria were met. Moreover, trait estimates from subthreshold criteria combinations often overlapped with diagnostic combinations (i.e., at threshold or higher), indicating that there were subthreshold combinations of criteria that indicated as much or more PD traits than some combinations at the diagnostic threshold. These results suggest that counting the number of criteria an individual meets provides only a coarse estimation of their PD trait level. Suggestions for the improved measurement of polythetically-defined mental disorders are discussed.
  note: by Luke D. Cooper.
  note: "Major Subject: Psychology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-08-09 15:09:44).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-8006
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
  subject:
    topic: psychopathology
  subject:
    topic: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
  subject:
    topic: polythetic
  subject:
    topic: Classification
  subject:
    topic: diagnostic threshold
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-8006
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110817
    record change date: 20151202142258.0
    record identifier: in00002716087