Possible correlates of DSM-III-R personality disorders

An association between personality disorder (PD) pathology, including symptoms of all PD types and Axis I disorders, and suicidal behaviour was studied in a series of 90 non‐schizophrenic, non‐bipolar in‐patients of both sexes without mental retardation or organic brain syndrome. All of these patien...

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Published in:Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 1997-12, Vol.96 (6), p.424-430
Main Authors: Modestin, J., Oberson, B., Erni, T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Abuse - diagnosis
Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Child Abuse, Sexual - diagnosis
Child Abuse, Sexual - statistics & numerical data
Cluster Analysis
Comorbidity
Feeding and Eating Disorders - diagnosis
Feeding and Eating Disorders - epidemiology
Female
Hospitalization
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
mental illness
Mood Disorders - diagnosis
Mood Disorders - epidemiology
personality disorder
Personality disorders
Personality Disorders - classification
Personality Disorders - diagnosis
Personality Disorders - epidemiology
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sex Factors
suicidal behaviour
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:An association between personality disorder (PD) pathology, including symptoms of all PD types and Axis I disorders, and suicidal behaviour was studied in a series of 90 non‐schizophrenic, non‐bipolar in‐patients of both sexes without mental retardation or organic brain syndrome. All of these patients, who scored positively on the SCID‐II‐PQ, were interviewed with the PDE and SCID‐P, and with the Structured interview for the study of childhood trauma provided with supplementary items reflecting suicidal behaviour. Mood disorders were found to be significantly correlated with cluster C pathology (PD pathology always being expressed by dimensional PDE scores) and eating disorders were significantly correlated with cluster B pathology in women. Psychoactive substance use disorders were mainly correlated with cluster B pathology and anxiety disorders with cluster C pathology in both sexes. Suicidal behaviour was correlated with PD pathology of all clusters in women, but not in men. In women a strong correlation was found between suicidal behaviour and history of childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse. The results of this study indicate that there is some specificity with regard to the Axis I/Axis II association, more so in relation to PD clusters than in relation to the individual PD types. However, the relationships between PD pathology and Axis I disorders and suicidal behaviour are complex, and they differ between the sexes.
ISSN:0001-690X
1600-0447
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1997.tb09943.x