Project

A search for validity of a childhood dimensional model for personality pathology: stability and change, comorbidity with Axis I pathology and structural links wit adult models of personality

Code
3E002007
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 January 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied psychology
    • Clinical and counselling psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
DSM personality disorders childhood diagnostics adolescents
 
Project description

Relying on an age-specific dimensional model of maladaptive traits, the current research starts from a developmental perspecitve on personality disorders and focuses on the development of personality pathology across time and the relation with the fenotypic structure of childhood DSM-IV disorders. Finally, the validity of the model is explored in its relation with existing models of personality and personality pathology.