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Authors: Hopwood, C. J.¹; Morey, L. C.¹; Gunderson, J. G.²; Skodol, A. E.³; Tracie Shea, M.⁴; Grilo, C. M.⁵; McGlashan, T. H.⁵

Source: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Volume 113, Number 5, May 2006 , pp. 430-439(10)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

Hopwood CJ, Morey LC, Gunderson JG, Skodol AE, Shea MT, Grilo CM, McGlashan TH. Hierarchical relationships between borderline, schizotypal, avoidant and obsessive–compulsive personality disorders.

Comorbidity among personality disorders is widely considered problematic. The validity of one proposed solution, diagnostic hierarchies, was investigated in the current study with respect to borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive–compulsive personality disorders. Method:

One approach used discriminant functions, derived from multiple psycho-social domains, that were used to classify comorbid individuals from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorder study (CLPS) to explore the possibility of hierarchical precedence of one personality disorder over another. A second approach examined the incremental increase in R²-value in predicting functioning and personality provided by each diagnosis over each other diagnosis. Results:

Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder was consistently subordinate to other diagnoses, whereas other indications of hierarchical relationships were domain-specific. Conclusion:

Results indicate minimal support for an over-arching hierarchical pattern among studied personality disorders, and suggest the inclusion of all relevant diagnoses in clinical practice.

Keywords: personality disorders; diagnosis; comorbidity

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2005.00683.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, Texas A & M University, College Station TX, USA 2: Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont MA, USA 3: Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY, USA 4: Department of Psychiatry, Butler Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA 5: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

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