Background: The Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+(PDQ-4+) is composed of a self-
report and an interview, the Clinical Signi fi cance Scale, but no studies have reported joint fi …

Accumulating evidence supports the reliability and validity of the diagnosis of personality
disorders (PDs) in adolescents, but whether the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

Until recently, the diagnosis and assessment of personality disorders had lagged
considerably behind that of most other mental disorders. The IPDE is a new instrument that …

We describe the test‐retest reliability of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire: Revised
(PDQ‐R), which was developed to assess DSM‐III‐R personality disorders (PD). Thirty …

Two instruments for the assessment of the DSM-III-R personality disorders were compared:
The Personality Disorders Questionnaire–Revised (PDQ-R) and the Munich Diagnostic …

Three hundred consecutively admitted in-and outpatients were administered the Personality
Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+(PDQ-4+). The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Depressive
Personality Disorder Inventory (DPDI; Huprich, Margrett, Barthelemy, & Fine, 1996). The …

• The rapidly expanding empirical study of personality disorders is the result of the
publication of operational diagnostic criteria inDSM-IIIand the development of instruments to …

Data from a community-based prospective longitudinal study were used to investigate the
utility of a structured assessment of the DSM-IV General Diagnostic Criteria for a Personality …

To THE EDITOR: In his timely article on problems in the valid assessment of personality
disorders(1), Dr. Perry notes that the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised(PDQ …