Familiality of DSM-III Dramatic and Anxious Personality Clusters
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 177 (2) , 96-100
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198902000-00005
Abstract
This double-blind family study was an investigation of the familiality of DSM-III avoidant, dependent, borderline, anxious cluster, and flamboyant cluster personality disorders (PDs) using a standardized DMS-III axis II measure. With the exception of borderline personality, there are no previous reports in this area. Avoidant, dependent, and anxious cluster PDs showed significant familiality. Borderline showed a trend in the direction of familiality but did not reach significance (p = 0.07). Relatives of flamboyant cluster PDs demonstrated significant but heterogeneous personality disorder pathology.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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