Examining the relationship between clinical concepts of personality disorder and dimensional measures of normal personality.
Psychiatric epidemiologists acknowledge the value of combining psychometric and clinical diagnostic approaches. However, in the description of personality disorders, the approaches have developed independently of one another. In two recent studies, the Socialization scale of the California Psychological Inventory and the E and N scales of the Eysenck Personality Inventory were found to be compatible with broad clinical concepts of personality disorder. It is suggested that these scales could be employed in epidemiological studies as screening tests.
D002140:California; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012951:Socialization