TITLE:
A Review of the Measures Designed to Assess DSM-5 Personality Disorders
AUTHORS:
Adrian Furnham, Rebecca Milner, Reece Akhtar, Filip De Fruyt
KEYWORDS:
Personality Disorders, Personality Pathology, Measures, Questionnaires, Structured Interviews
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.14,
September
30,
2014
ABSTRACT: The definition, classification and assessment of personality disorders
(PDs) have attracted considerable debate for nearly 50 years. This paper
attempts a comprehensive review of the instruments to assess all, or specific,
individual disorders as described in DSM-5, including structured interviews and
inventories. The review should be helpful for clinicians, researchers and also
industrial and organizational psychologists, to screen and assess the
personality pathology spectrum from subclinical manifestations to full blown
personality pathology. A decision tree helpful to choose among the different
measures is also provided.