Personality Assessment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence. 
  • A comparison of five-factor personality dimensions in males with sexual dysfunction and males with paraphilia. 
  • A comparison of the SPRINT and CAPS assessment scales for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of atomoxetine in young children with ADHD. 
  • A four-dimensional interpretation of risk taking 
  • A modified DBT skills training program for oppositional defiant adolescents: promising preliminary findings. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of theory-based activities for the behavioral symptoms of dementia in nursing home residents. 
  • A randomized clinical trial to dismantle components of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in female victims of interpersonal violence. 
  • A replication of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) revised algorithms. 
  • A test-retest reliability study of child-reported psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA-C). 
  • Aberrant behaviors of young boys with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Adaptive behavior in children with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Adinazolam sustained-release treatment of panic disorder: a double-blind study. 
  • Age differences in hostility among middle-aged and older adults. 
  • Age differences in personality across the adult life span: parallels in five cultures. 
  • An alternative to the search for single polymorphisms: toward molecular personality scales for the five-factor model. 
  • An assessment of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule from the perspective of the five-factor model. 
  • An experimental investigation of emotional reactivity and delayed emotional recovery in borderline personality disorder: the role of shame. 
  • Assessing interpersonal and communication skills in emergency medicine. 
  • Assessing the universal structure of personality in early adolescence: The NEO-PI-R and NEO-PI-3 in 24 cultures. 
  • Associations among NEO personality assessments and well-being at midlife: facet-level analyses. 
  • Associations of parental personality disorders and axis I disorders with childrearing behavior. 
  • Behavior patterns in nonreferred children: replication of the factor structure of the Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist. 
  • Behavioural equivalents of anxiety in children with fragile X syndrome: parent and teacher report. 
  • Brief report: Recognition of autism spectrum disorder before one year of age: a retrospective study based on home videotapes. 
  • Building a bridge of trust: collaborative assessment with a person with serious mental illness. 
  • Caregiver ratings of personality change in Alzheimer's disease patients: a replication. 
  • Cerebral vasodilation and vasoconstriction associated with acute anxiety. 
  • Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. 
  • Children and welfare reform: a view from an experimental welfare program in Minnesota. 
  • Children's behavioral styles at age 3 are linked to their adult personality traits at age 26. 
  • Clinical characteristics of anxiety disordered youth. 
  • Clinical use of the five-factor model: an introduction. 
  • Concordance between personality disorder assessment methods. 
  • Conflict about expressing emotions and chronic low back pain: associations with pain and anger. 
  • Conscientiousness in life course context: a commentary. 
  • Conscientiousness predicts disease progression (CD4 number and viral load) in people living with HIV. 
  • Constancy of adult personality structure in males: longitudinal, cross-sectional and times-of-measurement analyses. 
  • Culture and social distance: a case study of methodological cautions. 
  • Daylength during pregnancy and shyness in children: results from northern and southern hemispheres. 
  • Deep cognitive activation: a new approach to the unconscious. 
  • Defining oppositional defiant disorder. 
  • Delay of gratification, psychopathology, and personality: is low self-control specific to externalizing problems? 
  • Depression in Taiwanese patients with Alzheimer's disease determined by the National Institutes of Mental Health Provisional Criteria. 
  • Depression in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Depression morbidity in later life: prevalence and correlates in a developing country. 
  • Depressogenic vulnerability and gender-specific patterns of neuro-immune dysregulation: What the ratio of cortisol to C-reactive protein can tell us about loss of normal regulatory control. 
  • Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Developmental epidemiology. 
  • Developmental trajectories of proactive and reactive aggression from fifth to ninth grade. 
  • Diagnostic efficiency of the personality assessment inventory LOGIT function for posttraumatic stress disorder in women. 
  • Diagnostic specificity and nonspecificity in the dimensions of preschool psychopathology. 
  • Diagnostic utility of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-C16 and QIDS-SR16) in the elderly. 
  • Differences between depressed patients with heart failure and those with pulmonary disease. 
  • Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Dissemination of the Coping Power program: importance of intensity of counselor training. 
  • Do the dimensions of the temperament and character inventory map a simple genetic architecture? Evidence from molecular genetics and factor analysis. 
  • Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the efficacy and safety of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 
  • Early social attention impairments in autism: social orienting, joint attention, and attention to distress. 
  • Easing the burden of social anxiety disorder. 
  • Effectiveness of nonresidential specialty mental health services for children and adolescents in the "real world". 
  • Effects of LifeSkills training on medical students' performance in dealing with complex clinical cases. 
  • Efficacy of sertraline in preventing relapse of posttraumatic stress disorder: results of a 28-week double-blind, placebo-controlled study. 
  • Empirically derived subtypes of adolescent depression: latent profile analysis of co-occurring symptoms in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). 
  • Evaluating domestic partner abuse in a family practice clinic. 
  • Evaluation of the SCID-II personality disorder traits for DSM-IV: coherence, discrimination, relations with general personality traits, and functional impairment. 
  • Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. 
  • Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight. 
  • Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Families promote emotional and behavioural resilience to bullying: evidence of an environmental effect. 
  • Feared consequences of panic attacks in panic disorder: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
  • Feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in preschool children: two case reports. 
  • First-time suicide attempters, repeat attempters, and previous attempters on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. 
  • Friendship as a moderating factor in the pathway between early harsh home environment and later victimization in the peer group. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Gender role orientation and fearfulness in children with anxiety disorders. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder and depression: childhood risk factors in a birth cohort followed to age 32. 
  • Generalized social anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder: structural analysis and treatment outcome. 
  • Genetic and environmental effects on openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness: an adoption/twin study. 
  • Genome-wide association scan for five major dimensions of personality. 
  • Harmonization of Neuroticism and Extraversion phenotypes across inventories and cohorts in the Genetics of Personality Consortium: an application of Item Response Theory. 
  • Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression. 
  • Heritability of antisocial behaviour at 9: do callous-unemotional traits matter? 
  • Hippocampal volume is associated with physician-reported acute cognitive deficits after electroconvulsive therapy. 
  • Hostility as a predictor of survival in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Identifying causes of disagreement between self-reports and spouse ratings of personality. 
  • Impact of race on early treatment termination and outcomes in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. 
  • Implications of extending the ADHD age-of-onset criterion to age 12: results from a prospectively studied birth cohort. 
  • Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers exhibit atypical frontal brain activity: a replication and extension of previous findings. 
  • Integrating normal and abnormal personality structure: the Five-Factor Model. 
  • Interaction of temperamental resistance to control and restrictive parenting in the development of externalizing behavior. 
  • Interactive effect of substance abuse and depression on adolescent social competence. 
  • Internal consistency of DSM-III diagnoses using the symptom scales of the Child Assessment Schedule. 
  • Interpersonal Hostility Assessment Technique: description and validation against the criterion of coronary artery disease. 
  • Issues in the assessment of personality disorder and substance abuse using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II). 
  • Life events and post-traumatic stress: the development of a new measure for children and adolescents. 
  • Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relation between low social preference in childhood and anxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence. 
  • Loneliness in childhood: toward the next generation of assessment and research. 
  • Longitudinal dimensionality of adolescent psychopathology: testing the differentiation hypothesis. 
  • Low self-esteem is related to aggression, antisocial behavior, and delinquency. 
  • Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: follow-up at age 26 years. 
  • Marital history at midlife as a predictor of longevity: alternative explanations to the protective effect of marriage. 
  • Measuring impulsivity and examining its relationship to delinquency. 
  • Mediators of the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing and disruptive behavior disorders. 
  • Medically unexplained physical symptoms, somatization disorder and abridged somatization: studies with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. 
  • Medication treatment strategies in the MTA Study: relevance to clinicians and researchers. 
  • Merging universal and indicated prevention programs: the Fast Track model. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Mini-SPIN: A brief screening assessment for generalized social anxiety disorder. 
  • Mood variability in adolescents: a study of depressed, nondepressed and comorbid patients. 
  • Motherhood during the teen years: a developmental perspective on risk factors for childbearing. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia. 
  • Observational Assessment of Preschool Disruptive Behavior, Part I: reliability of the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule (DB-DOS). 
  • Observational Assessment of Preschool Disruptive Behavior, Part II: validity of the Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule (DB-DOS). 
  • Observed classroom behavior of children with ADHD: relationship to gender and comorbidity. 
  • Osteoporosis prevention in premenopausal women: using a stage model approach to examine the predictors of behavior. 
  • Parent-reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptomatology and sleep problems in a preschool-age pediatric clinic sample. 
  • Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Peer group victimization as a predictor of children's behavior problems at home and in school. 
  • Personality Strengths as Resilience: A One-Year Multiwave Study. 
  • Personality and differential treatment response in major depression: a randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive-behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy. 
  • Personality and problem gambling: a prospective study of a birth cohort of young adults. 
  • Personality and self-regulation: trait and information-processing perspectives. 
  • Personality as a predictor of dietary quality in spouses during midlife. 
  • Personality assessment in a diverse urban sample. 
  • Personality assessment in psychosomatic medicine. Value of a trait taxonomy. 
  • Personality differences predict health-risk behaviors in young adulthood: evidence from a longitudinal study. 
  • Personality factors and styles among college students who binge eat and drink. 
  • Personality psychology and problem behaviors: HIV risk and the five-factor model. 
  • Personality traits are linked to crime among men and women: evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Personality traits in Sardinia: testing founder population effects on trait means and variances. 
  • Phobic, panic, and major depressive disorders and the five-factor model of personality. 
  • Physiological and psychological effects of testosterone during severe energy deficit and recovery: A study protocol for a randomized, placebo-controlled trial for Optimizing Performance for Soldiers (OPS). 
  • Placebo-controlled trial of sertraline in the treatment of children with generalized anxiety disorder. 
  • Pre-treatment measures of impulsivity, aggression and sensation seeking are associated with treatment outcome for African-American cocaine-dependent patients. 
  • Predictive value of family history on severity of illness: the case for depression, anxiety, alcohol dependence, and drug dependence. 
  • Predictors of partial remission in older patients treated for major depression: the role of comorbid dysthymia. 
  • Preschool psychopathology: lessons for the lifespan. 
  • Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Prevalence of depression among older Americans: the Aging, Demographics and Memory Study. 
  • Preventing suicide in primary care patients: the primary care physician's role. 
  • Primum non nocere (first do no harm): symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD. 
  • Problems in families of male Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Psychiatric assessment of young children. 
  • Psychiatric diagnostic interviews for children and adolescents: a comparative study. 
  • Psychiatric symptom dimensions in the Cornell Medical Index among normal adult males. 
  • Psychometric properties of the UCLA PTSD reaction index. part II: investigating factor structure findings in a national clinic-referred youth sample. 
  • Psychometric properties of the UCLA PTSD reaction index: part I. 
  • Psychometric study of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist in Fragile X Syndrome and implications for targeted treatment. 
  • Psychophysiological mediators of caregiver stress and differential cognitive decline. 
  • Relation between informant-rated personality and clinician-rated depression in patients with memory disorders. 
  • Relationship between personality disorder dimensions and verbal memory functioning in a community population. 
  • Relative cost-effectiveness of treatments for adolescent depression: 36-week results from the TADS randomized trial. 
  • Religious coping and cognitive symptoms of depression in elderly medical patients. 
  • Religious coping in the nursing home: a biopsychosocial model. 
  • Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents. 
  • Response to the van Alphen et al. 'reaction to "treatment of older adults with co-morbid personality disorder and depression: a dialectical behavior therapy approach". 
  • Role of child and maternal processes in the psychological adjustment of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • SPRINT: a brief global assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia for school-age children (K-SADS-PL) for the assessment of preschool children--a preliminary psychometric study. 
  • Screening for violence risk in military veterans: predictive validity of a brief clinical tool. 
  • Screening parents during child evaluations: exploring parent and child psychopathology in the same clinic. 
  • Serious emotional disturbance among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 years postdisaster. 
  • Sex and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. I: Lifetime prevalence, chronicity and recurrence. 
  • Sexual knowledge and experience among young men with spina bifida. 
  • Shared experiences and the similarity of personalities: a longitudinal study of married couples. 
  • Sickle cell disease pain in children and adolescents: change in pain frequency and coping strategies over time. 
  • Smoking and the Five-Factor Model of personality. 
  • Social ecology of child soldiers: child, family, and community determinants of mental health, psychosocial well-being, and reintegration in Nepal. 
  • Social information processing and cardiac predictors of adolescent antisocial behavior. 
  • Social information-processing mechanisms in reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • Social support and hostility as predictors of depressive symptoms in cardiac patients one month after hospitalization: a prospective study. 
  • Socialization mediators of the relation between socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. 
  • Solid ground in the wetlands of personality: a reply to Block. 
  • Stress hormone levels of children of depressed mothers. 
  • Studying the epidemiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: screening method and pilot results. 
  • Subclassification of children with autism and pervasive developmental disorder: a questionnaire based on Wing's subgrouping scheme. 
  • Subtypes of social withdrawal in early childhood: sociometric status and social-cognitive differences across four years. 
  • Suicidal ideation among adolescents with alcohol use disorders during treatment and aftercare. 
  • Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among youth with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • Temperamental origins of child and adolescent behavior problems: from age three to age fifteen. 
  • Temperamental qualities at age three predict personality traits in young adulthood: longitudinal evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Test-Retest Reliability of the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA). 
  • The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA). 
  • The Happy Personality: A Meta-Analysis of 137 Personality Traits and Subjective Well-Being 
  • The Interaction Anxiousness Scale: construct and criterion-related validity. 
  • The Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist behavioral classification system: a construct validity study with nonreferred children. 
  • The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The dilemmas of parents of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • The ecological effects of universal and selective violence prevention programs for middle school students: A randomized trial 
  • The effects of age and sex on depression ratings in children and adolescents. 
  • The effects of the fast track preventive intervention on the development of conduct disorder across childhood. 
  • The impact of perceived racism: psychological symptoms among African American boys. 
  • The moderating role of personality factors in the relationship between depression and neuropsychological functioning among older adults. 
  • The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis. 
  • The psychometric properties of the MASC in a pediatric psychiatric sample. 
  • The role of parent stress and coping and family functioning in parent and child adjustment to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • The screening and diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders. 
  • The shifting subtypes of ADHD: classification depends on how symptom reports are combined. 
  • The timing of child physical maltreatment: a cross-domain growth analysis of impact on adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems. 
  • Three-year incidence of first-onset depressive syndrome in a population sample of older adults: the Cache County study. 
  • Time-dependent changes in positively biased self-perceptions of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a developmental psychopathology perspective. 
  • Trait psychology comes of age. 
  • Trajectories of maternal depression over 7 years: relations with child psychophysiology and behavior and role of contextual risks. 
  • Trajectories of preschool disorders to full DSM depression at school age and early adolescence: continuity of preschool depression. 
  • Translating personality psychology to help personalize preventive medicine for young adult patients. 
  • Type As who think they are type Bs: discrepancies between self-ratings and interview ratings of the type A (coronary-prone) behaviour pattern. 
  • Updating Norman's "Adequate Taxonomy": intelligence and personality dimensions in natural language and in questionnaires. 
  • Utility of the SCL-90-R with depressed and conduct-disordered adolescent inpatients. 
  • Validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory Aggression scales and Violence Potential index in veterans with PTSD. 
  • Validity rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in a VA Medical Center Setting. 
  • Virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in the early course of schizophrenia: Associations with cognitive performance and daily functioning. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, Daniel William, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology