TY - JOUR
T1 - Empirical evidence for a four factor framework of personality disorder organization
T2 - multigroup confirmatory factor analysis of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III personality disorder scales across Belgian and Danish data samples
AU - Rossi, Gina
AU - Elklit, Ask
AU - Simonsen, Erik
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - The factor structure of the Milion Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (Millon, Millon, Davis, & Grossman, 2006) personality disorder scales was analyzed using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis on data obtained from a Danish (N = 2030) and a Belgian (N = 1210) sample. Two-, three-, and four factor models, a priori specified using structures found by Dyce, O'Connor, Parkins, and Janzen (1997), were fitted to the data. The best fitting model was a four factor structure (RMSEA = .066, GFI = .98, CFI = .93) with partially invariant factor loadings. The robustness of this four-factor model clearly supports the efforts to organize future personality disorder description in a four-factor framework by corroborating four domains that were predominant in dimensional models (Widiger & Simonsen, 2005): Factor 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively corresponded to emotional dysregulation versus stability, antagonism versus compliance, extraversion versus introversion, and constraint versus impulsivity.
AB - The factor structure of the Milion Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (Millon, Millon, Davis, & Grossman, 2006) personality disorder scales was analyzed using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis on data obtained from a Danish (N = 2030) and a Belgian (N = 1210) sample. Two-, three-, and four factor models, a priori specified using structures found by Dyce, O'Connor, Parkins, and Janzen (1997), were fitted to the data. The best fitting model was a four factor structure (RMSEA = .066, GFI = .98, CFI = .93) with partially invariant factor loadings. The robustness of this four-factor model clearly supports the efforts to organize future personality disorder description in a four-factor framework by corroborating four domains that were predominant in dimensional models (Widiger & Simonsen, 2005): Factor 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively corresponded to emotional dysregulation versus stability, antagonism versus compliance, extraversion versus introversion, and constraint versus impulsivity.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Belgium
KW - Denmark
KW - Factor Analysis, Statistical
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Models, Psychological
KW - Personality Assessment
KW - Personality Disorders
KW - Personality Tests
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Translations
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1521/pedi.2010.24.1.128
DO - 10.1521/pedi.2010.24.1.128
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 20205502
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 24
SP - 128
EP - 150
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
IS - 1
ER -