Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Journal of Personality Disorders |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 128-50 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISSN | 0885-579X |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Psychological
- Personality Assessment
- Personality Disorders
- Personality Tests
- Psychometrics
- Translations
- Young Adult