title: Exploratory factor analysis of borderline personality disorder criteria in monolingual Hispanic outpatients with substance use disorders.
abstract: This study examined the factor structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in Hispanic patients. Subjects were 130 monolingual Hispanic adults who had been admitted to a specialty outpatient clinic that provides psychiatric and substance abuse services to Spanish-speaking individuals. All were reliably assessed with the Spanish-Language Version of the Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders. After evaluating internal consistency of the BPD criterion set, an exploratory factor analysis was performed using principal axis factoring. Results suggested a unidimensional structure, and were consistent with similar studies of the DSM-IV criteria for BPD in non-Hispanic samples. These findings have implications for understanding borderline psychopathology in this population, and for the overall validity of the DSM-IV BPD construct.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94010, USA. beckerdf@sutterhealth.org
authors.forename: Daniel F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: Luis Miguel
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Añez
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paris
authors.forename: Carlos M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Grilo
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D025341:Principal Component Analysis / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications*
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