Judgment research and the dimensional model of personality.
Comments on the original article "Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: Shifting to a dimensional model," by T. A. Widiger and T. J. Trull. The purpose of this comment is to address (a) whether psychologists know how personality traits are currently assessed by clinicians and (b) the reliability and validity of those evaluations. Although Widiger and Trull argued that the shift to a dimensional model will improve the diagnosis of personality disorders, we can also expect that it will lead to improvements in evaluating personality traits.
Garb
Howard N
HN
Lackland Air Force Base, TX 78236, USA. howard.garb@lackland.af.mil
D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design