Reliability of categorical and dimensional judgments of personality disorder



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Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:498-500
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association

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Reliability of categorical and dimensional judgments of personality disorder

KA Heumann and LC Morey
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240.

To investigate interrater reliability on categorical and dimensional judgments of personality disorder, five clinicians completed five different judgment tasks for each of 10 case vignettes. The reliability estimates support previously unconfirmed statements that dimensional judgments are substantially more reliable than categorical diagnoses.

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