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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychiatry, PID-5, Community sample, Cross-walk, Reliability, Convergent validity, Divergent validity, PATHOLOGICAL PERSONALITY, FIT INDEXES, MODEL, CONVERGENCE, INVENTORY, VALIDITY, CRITERIA, Adult, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Female, Humans, Language, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Disorders, Personality Inventory, Predictive Value of Tests, Regression Analysis, Reproducibility of Results, Self Report, Surveys and Questionnaires, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, 3202 Clinical sciences, 5203 Clinical and health psychology

Abstract:

The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5; Krueger et al., 2012) is a dimensional self-report questionnaire designed to measure personality pathology according to the criterion B of the DSM-5 Section III personality model. In the current issue of DSM, this dimensional Section III personality model co-exists with the Section II categorical personality model derived from DSM-IV-TR. Therefore, investigation of the inter-relatedness of both models across populations and languages is warranted. In this study, we first examined the factor structure and reliability of the PID-5 in a Flemish community sample (N=509) by means of exploratory structural equation modeling and alpha coefficients. Next, we investigated the predictive ability of section III personality traits in relation to section II personality disorders through correlations and stepwise regression analyses. Results revealed a five factor solution for the PID-5, with adequate reliability of the facet scales. The variance in Section II personality disorders could be predicted by their theoretically comprising Section III personality traits, but additional Section III personality traits augmented this prediction. Based on current results, we discuss the Section II personality disorder conceptualization and the Section III personality disorder operationalization.