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Introduction to the special section on the concept of disorderL A Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:371-3. 1999....
Shared, not unique, components of personality and psychosocial functioning predict depression severity after acute-phase cognitive therapyLee Anna Clark
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75390 9149, USA
J Pers Disord 17:406-30. 2003..psychosocial measures), or (c) specific aspects of the individual measures. Only the most general factor shared across the personality and psychosocial variables predicted later depression...- Stability and change in personality pathology: revelations of three longitudinal studiesLee Anna Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, IA 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Disord 19:524-32; discussion 594-6. 2005..Implications for future research are considered... - Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting behaviorL A Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:274-85. 2000..The longitudinal links established between personality and parenting behaviors indicate the predictive utility of personality. Findings also highlight the bidirectionality of the early parent-child relationship... - Temperament as a unifying basis for personality and psychopathologyLee Anna Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1316, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:505-21. 2005.... - Assessment and diagnosis of personality disorder: perennial issues and an emerging reconceptualizationLee Anna Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 58:227-57. 2007..A new model for assessing PD-and perhaps all psychopathology-emerges from integrating these interrelated reconceptualizations... 
Psychosocial functioning in the context of diagnosis: assessment and theoretical issuesEunyoe Ro
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychol Assess 21:313-24. 2009..Finally, the authors propose an integration of theory and empirical findings, which they believe will better incorporate psychosocial functioning into future diagnostic systems...- Personality disorder assessment: the challenge of construct validityL A Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Disord 11:205-31. 1997..We conclude that more complex conceptual models that can incorporate both biological and environmental influences on the development of adaptive and maladaptive personality are needed... - Separate personality traits from states to predict depressionLee Anna Clark
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Disord 17:152-72. 2003..Thus, personality assessments tap both state affect and trait variance, with the state-affect variance masking the trait variance when patients are depressed... - Development and initial validation of the disinhibition inventory: a multifaceted measure of disinhibitionLilian Dindo
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Assessment 16:274-91. 2009.... - Implications of mothers' personality for their parenting and their young children's developmental outcomesG Kochanska
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers 65:387-420. 1997..Regression analyses indicated that mothers' personality, particularly negative emotionality and socialization, influenced broadly conceptualized adaptive child outcomes, even after the influence of parenting was controlled... - The Iowa Personality Disorder Screen: development and preliminary validation of a brief screening interviewD R Langbehn
Department of Psychiatry, VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
J Pers Disord 13:75-89. 1999..Addition of two more items leads to an estimated sensitivity of 79% and specificity of 86%. The IPDS shows promise as a quick personality disorder screen for use in research settings or standard clinical interviews... - Predicting dimensions of personality disorder from domains and facets of the Five-Factor ModelS K Reynolds
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, USA
J Pers 69:199-222. 2001..Results support assessment of the full range of NEO-PI-R facets over the Five-Factor Model domains for both research and clinical use... - Comorbidity of anxiety and unipolar mood disordersS Mineka
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 49:377-412. 1998..This work has focused on both the cognitive content of anxiety and depression and on the effects that anxiety and depression have on information processing for mood-congruent material... - Locating eating pathology within an empirical diagnostic taxonomy: evidence from a community-based sampleKelsie T Forbush
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:282-92. 2010..These findings underscore the value of developing more comprehensive empirically based models of psychopathology to increase researchers' understanding of diverse mental disorders... - Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology: II. Further articulation of a comprehensive unified trait structureDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242 1407, USA
J Pers 76:1545-86. 2008.... - Passive-submissive and active-emotional trait dependency: evidence for a two-factor modelTheresa A Morgan
University of Iowa, 11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA52246, USA
J Pers 78:1325-52. 2010..Taken together, these data suggest a clear, 2-factor model for trait dependency that is distinct from detachment/autonomy... - Dependency, impulsivity, and self-harm: traits hypothesized to underlie the association between cluster B personality and substance use disordersAlex Casillas
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Pers Disord 16:424-36. 2002..However, dependency was not associated with either type of disorder. These results indicate that sets of individual traits can be of significant utility in understanding the comorbidity between PDs and SUDs... - Continuation-phase cognitive therapy's effects on remission and recovery from depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Department of Psychology, Truman State University, Street, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:367-71. 2009..The authors discuss the importance of defining efficacious treatment as producing remission and recovery... - Detection of deception on the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality: validation of the validity scalesL J Simms
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Assessment 8:251-66. 2001..Structural analyses revealed that two moderately correlated factors-positive distortion and negative distortion-underlie scores on these validity scales... - Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathologyT A Widiger
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Bull 126:946-63. 2000..longitudinal diagnoses, and (e) the role of laboratory instruments... - Correspondence of psychiatric patient and informant ratings of personality traits, temperament, and interpersonal problemsRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, USA
Psychol Assess 14:39-49. 2002..This conclusion runs counter to the intuitively appealing notion that psychopathology has a detrimental effect on self-awareness... - Validation of a computerized adaptive version of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP)Leonard J Simms
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Psychol Assess 17:28-43. 2005..These results confirm not only key findings from previous CAT simulation studies of personality measures but extend them for the 1st time to a live assessment setting... - A self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist: psychometric properties of factor-based scales in three samplesKevin D Wu
University of Iowa, IA, USA
J Anxiety Disord 21:644-61. 2007..We provide recommendations for improving subsequent self-report versions but caution users not to over-extend its intended use... - Neighborhood context, personality, and stressful life events as predictors of depression among African American womenCarolyn E Cutrona
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, IA 50010, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:3-15. 2005..Neighborhood disadvantage/disorder can be viewed as a vulnerability factor that increases susceptibility to depression following the experience of negative life events... - Moderators of continuation phase cognitive therapy's effects on relapse, recurrence, remission, and recovery from depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Department of Psychology, Truman State University, 100 East Normal Street, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:449-58. 2010..We emphasize the need for replication of these results before clinical application... - Patients with Huntington's disease have impaired awareness of cognitive, emotional, and functional abilitiesKarin F Hoth
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:365-76. 2007..Future studies will benefit also from examining the association between awareness and cognition in larger samples... - Changes in cognitive content during and following cognitive therapy for recurrent depression: substantial and enduring, but not predictive of change in depressive symptomsRobin B Jarrett
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 9149, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:432-46. 2007..Early changes in negative cognitive content did not predict later changes in depressive symptoms, which the authors discuss in the context of methodological challenges and the cognitive theory of depression... - Relations between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and personality: beyond Axis I-Axis II comorbidityKevin D Wu
University of Iowa, USA
J Anxiety Disord 20:695-717. 2006..Overall, OCD patients showed a more specific pattern of personality pathology than did general outpatients, who were elevated more generally across personality disorders and negative affectivity scales... - An integrative dimensional classification of personality disorderThomas A Widiger
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 21:243-55. 2009..The empirical support, feasibility, and clinical utility of the proposal are discussed. Points of ambiguity and dispute are highlighted, and suggestions for future research are provided... - Reducing relapse and recurrence in unipolar depression: a comparative meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral therapy's effectsJeffrey R Vittengl
Department of Psychology, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:475-88. 2007..The authors discuss implications for research and patient care and suggest directions, with methodological refinements, for future studies... - Diagnostic assignment of criteria: clinicians and DSM-IVJ A Linde
Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1407, USA
J Pers Disord 12:126-37. 1998..Specific points of disagreement between clinician criteria assignments and the DSM-IV are discussed... - Age-group differences in facets of positive and negative affectR E Ready
Department of Psychology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Aging Ment Health 15:784-95. 2011..The current study advances this work by comparing the factor structure of facets of PA and NA in older and younger adults using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses... - Psychometric evaluation of the restructured clinical scales of the MMPI-2Leonard J Simms
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Psychol Assess 17:345-58. 2005..Thus, the RC scales demonstrated several psychometric strengths while utilizing 60% fewer items, but the 2 sets of scales cannot be used interchangeably. Interpretive considerations are discussed... - Multiple measures, methods, and moments: a factor-analytic investigation of change in depressive symptoms during acute-phase cognitive therapy for depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
Psychol Med 35:693-704. 2005..Although their concurrent convergent validity is well established, the degree to which these measures reflect the same pattern and level of change during treatment is unclear... - Validity of sudden gains in acute phase treatment of depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:173-82. 2005..On the basis of these findings, the authors conceptualize sudden gains as one of several possible patterns of acute phase treatment response... - Self-directed affiliation and autonomy across acute and continuation phase cognitive therapy for recurrent depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 4221, USA
J Pers Assess 83:235-47. 2004..We discuss potential clinical implications of these results and present case examples to illustrate patterns of change... - Interpersonal problems, personality pathology, and social adjustment after cognitive therapy for depressionJeffrey R Vittengl
Division of Social Science, Truman State University, 100 East Normal Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501 4221, USA
Psychol Assess 15:29-40. 2003..These findings support the reliability and validity of the IIP-C and are discussed in the context of personality theory and measurement... - Distress and fear disorders: an alternative empirically based taxonomy of the "mood" and "anxiety" disordersLee Anna Clark
Br J Psychiatry 189:481-3. 2006..Instead, they form a broad group of "internalising" disorders with two subclasses: distress disorders and fear disorders. This empirical structure should form the basis for revised taxonomies in DSM-V and ICD-11... - Psychiatric patient and informant reports of patient behaviorRebecca E Ready
The University Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Pers 73:1-22. 2005..Low patient-informant agreement may be due to informants having relatively less detailed knowledge of patient behavior over time or patients not reporting accurately about certain behaviors... - Psychiatric patient- and informant-reported personality: predicting concurrent and future behaviorRebecca E Ready
Brown Medical School, USA
Assessment 9:361-72. 2002..Thus, both patient and informant reports of personality contribute importantly to prediction of behavior, and predictive ability is stable across time...