title: Integrating psychopathology and personality disorders conceptualized by the MMPI-2-RF and the MCMI-III: a structural validity study.
abstract: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (Ben-Porath & Tellegen,  2008 ) Restructured Clinical scales and Higher Order scales were linked to the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (Millon, Millon, Davis, & Grossman,  2009 ) personality disorder scales and clinical syndrome scales in a Flemish/Dutch sample of psychiatric inpatients and outpatients, substance abuse patients, correctional inmates, and forensic psychiatric patients (N = 968). Structural validity of psychopathology and personality disorders as conceptualized by both instruments was investigated by means of principal component analysis. Results reveal a higher order structure with 4 dimensions (internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, paranoid ideation/thought disturbance, and pathological introversion) that parallels earlier research on pathological personality dimensions as well as research linking pathological personality traits with mental disorders. Theoretical and clinical implications are considered.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Adolescent Psychiatry, Reinier van Arkel Mental Health Institute, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. P.T.vander.Heijden@RvAGroep.nl
authors.forename: Paul T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: van der Heijden
authors.forename: Jos I M
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Egger
authors.forename: Gina M P
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: Jan J L
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Derksen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058010:Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory; D009426:Netherlands; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018511:Systems Integration; D055815:Young Adult