Abstract
We used behavioral and emotional problem items to construct (a) nosologically based Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) oriented scales from experts' ratings of the items' consistency with DSM-IV (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) diagnostic categories, and (b) statistically based syndromes from factor analyses of adults' self-ratings and ratings of adults by people who knew them (N = 4,628). Quantified, operationally defined, and normed DSM-oriented scales and statistically based syndromes facilitate multitaxonomic approaches to the assessment of adult psychopathology. Psychometric properties and cross-informant correlations were similar for DSM-oriented scales and statistically derived syndromes. Statistical associations between phenotypically similar DSM-oriented scales and statistically based syndromes were moderate to strong. Multitaxonomic approaches can avoid reification of provisional taxa that may result from excessive reliance on a single taxonomic paradigm.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 49-63 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Personality Assessment |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This article was supported by the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families and NIMH Grant MH64474. We thank Masha Ivanova and Leslie Rescorla for their helpful comments.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis