Publication of DSM-III led to increased recognition and diagnosis of personality disorders by assigning them to a separate axis. Self-report inventories have recently been constructed to reflect these changes in psychiatric nosology. This study compared the diagnostic efficiency of three tests: MMPI personality disorder scales (MMPI PD scales), Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), and the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ). Subjects were nonpsychotic psychiatric patients (n = 37), and medical control patients (n = 20). Subjects were given a clinical interview to diagnose any and all DSM-III personality disorders, and were then administered the three self-report inventories. Results indicate that the tests were extremely accurate at identifying the presence of any personality disorder, clusters of personality disorders, and specific personality disorders. Using the tests in combination further increased their efficiency. Implications for using cost-effective self-report tests in lieu of labor-intensive structured interviews are discussed.

Thesis (M.A (Psychology))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2016 / Cognitive assessment tests that were standardised in the US and UK continues to be used to assess South African populations, and those that are standardised in South Africa are standardised using urban populations. These facts draw a question to the validity of the cognitive assessments when administered in rural South African populations. A test battery was conducted, containing WAIS-IVSA, Stroop, Trail Making Test, Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, Ray Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Wechsler Card Sorting Test, Logic Memory and One Minutes Maths. Construct validity of South African standardised test (WAIS-IVSA) was therefore assessed with the use of Confirmatory Factor Analysis, and the results stipulated that the WAIS-IVSA structure was not measuring what it is supposed to. Thus further analysis on individually selected measures was done. The effects of Language, Education, Age and gender were also assessed with the use of Spearmen correlation. / MT2017

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1927. / Vita. Published also as Teachers college, Columbia university, Contributions to education, no. 259.

Proefschrift--Utrecht. / "Stellingen" (2 L.) laid in. "Literatuur": p. [94]-95.

Issued also as thesis, Universit́e de Paris. / "Bibliographie des ouvrages citeś ou consulteś": p. [213]-214.

Thesis (PH. D.)--Columbia University, 1925. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1921. / Vita. Published also as Archives of psychology, no. 46. Columbia university contributions to philosophy and psychology, vol. XXVII, no. 3.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania.

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