title: Gender differences in personality disorders in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors examined gender differences in DSM-III-R personality disorders in adolescent psychiatric inpatients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Structured diagnostic interviews were reliably performed with a series of 138 consecutively admitted adolescent inpatients. To reduce variability due to heterogeneity of axis I diagnoses, a subgroup of 87 patients with major depression was retested for gender differences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Females were significantly more likely than males to meet the criteria for borderline personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder was diagnosed only in males. A similar pattern was observed in the subgroup of patients with major depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings suggest potentially important gender differences in personality disorders in adolescent inpatients.
authors.affiliation: Yale Psychiatric Institute, New Haven, CT 06520-8038, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Grilo
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Fehon
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Edell
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: McGlashan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012737:Sex Factors