Refining the Borderline Personality Disorder Phenotype through Finite Mixture Modeling: Implications for Classification

• Published in: Journal of personality disorders Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 313 - 331
• Main Authors: Lenzenweger, Mark F., Clarkin, John F., Yeomans, Frank E., Kernberg, Otto F., Levy, Kenneth N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Guilford Press 01.08.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Aggression; Aggression - classification; Antisocial Personality Disorder - classification; Borderline Personality Disorder - classification; Borderline Personality Disorder - physiopathology; Classification; Etiology; Evidence; Factor Analysis; Female; Genotype & phenotype; Humans; Male; Mental Health; Middle Aged; Models, Psychological; Paranoid Disorders - classification; Patients; Personality; Personality Assessment; Personality Problems; Phenomenology; Phenotype; Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology; Statistical methods; Studies; Taxonomy; Theory; Validity

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by considerable heterogeneity. Prior approaches to resolving heterogeneity in BPD pathology have used factor and cluster analytic as well as latent class analysis strategies. These prior studies have been atheoretical in nature, but provide an i...