Thomas Widiger
Encyclopedia
Thomas A. Widiger is currently a faculty member at the University of Kentucky
in the Department of Psychology. His research interests are concerned generally with the diagnosis and classification of psychopathology. He is more specifically interested in the validity of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-IV); dimensional models of personality disorder
; assessment of personality disorders with self-report inventories
, unstructured clinical interviews, and semi-structured clinical interviews; gender biases in the diagnosis of mental disorders
; the relationship of personality to psychopathology; and the differentiation of normal from abnormal psychological functioning. He will typically have anywhere from four to eight graduate students
, and one undergraduate honor’s thesis student, completing either their thesis or dissertation within his lab.
Dr. Widiger currently serves as Associate Editor
for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology
, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
, and Journal of Personality Disorders. Currently serves on the editorial board
of additional journals as a Consulting Editor (e.g., Psychological Bulletin, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Assessment).
In the past, he served as a panel member for NIMH review committees for Clinical Psychopathology and for Behavioral & Biobehavioral Processes and as the Research Coordinator for DSM-IV, helping to develop and monitor the process by which the construction of the diagnostic manual was guided by empirical research
.
Bibliography
.
Stricker, G., & Widiger, T.A. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of Psychology (Vol. 8). Clinical Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons
, Inc.
Widiger, T.A. (2000). Personality disorders. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology (Vol. 6, pp. 120-124). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). Official classification systems. In W.J. Livesley (Ed.), Handbook of personality disorders (pp. 60-83). NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A., & Bornstein, R.F. (2001). Histrionic, narcissistic, and dependent personality disorders. In H.E. Adams & P. Sutker (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology (3rd ed., pp. 507-529). NY: Plenum.
Widiger, T.A., & Coker, L.A. (2001). Assessing personality disorders. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Clinical personality assessment. Practical approaches (2nd ed., pp. 407-434). New York: Oxford University Press
.
First, M.B., Bell, C.B., Cuthbert, B., Krystal, J.H.,.Malison, R., Offord, D.R., Reiss, D., Shea, M.T., Widiger, T.A., & Wisner, K.L. (2002). Personality disorders and relational disorders: A research agenda for addressing crucial gaps in DSM. In D.J. Kupfer, M.B. First, & D.A. Regier (Eds.), A research agenda for DSM-V (pp. 123-199). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association
.
Trull, T.J., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). The Structured Interview
for the Five Factor Model of Personality. In B. De Raad & M. Perugini (Eds.), Big five assessment (pp. 147-170). Bern, Switzerland: Hogrefe & Huber.
Widiger, T.A. (2002). Personality disorders. In M.M. Antony & D.H. Barlow (Eds.), Handbook of assessment, treatment planning, and outcome for psychological disorders (pp. 453-480). NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A. (2002). Values, politics, and science in the construction of the DSMs. In J. Sadler (Ed.), Descriptions and prescriptions: Values, mental disorders, and the DSMs (pp. 25-41). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Widiger, T.A., & Costa, P.T. (2002). Five factor model
personality disorder research. In P.T. Costa & T.A. Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 59-87). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A., Trull, T.J., Clarkin, J.F., Sanderson, C., & Costa, P.T. (2002). A description of the DSM-IV personality disorders with the five-factor model of personality. In P.T. Costa & T.A. Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 89-99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A., & Coker, L.A. (2003). Mental disorders as discrete clinical conditions: Dimensional versus categorical classification. In M. Hersen & S.M. Turner (Eds.), Adult psychopathology and diagnosis (4th ed., pp. 3-35). NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins, S. (2003). Personality disorders. In A. Tasman, J. Kay, J.A. Lieberman, & M.B. First (Eds.), Psychiatry (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., pp. 1603-1637). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Personality disorders. In R.J. Craig (Ed.), Clinical and diagnostic interviewing (2nd ed., pp. 251-277). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson
.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Overview of models of psychopathology. In J. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.), Psychopathology in the workplace: Recognition and adaptation (pp. 9-24). NY: Brunner-Routledge.
Coker, L.A.., & Widiger, T.A. (2004). Personality disorders. In J. Maddux and B. Winstead (Eds.), Psychopathology: Foundation for a contemporary understanding (pp. 201-227). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Classification and diagnosis: Historical development and contemporary issues. In J. Maddux and B. Winstead (Eds.), Psychopathology: Foundations for a contemporary understanding (pp. 63-83). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Psychopathy and DSM-IV psychopathology. In C. Patrick (Ed.), Handbook of psychopathy. NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Alternatives to DSM-IV Axis II. In W. O’Donohue, K. Fowler, & S.O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Personality Disorders. Sage Publishing Co.
Widiger, T.A., Mullins-Sweatt, S., & Anderson, K. (in press). Personality and depression in women. In C. Keyes & S. Goodman (Eds.), Handbook for the study of women and depression: Views from social, behavioral, and biomedical science. NY: Cambridge University Press
.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. (in press). Categorical and dimensional models of personality disorder. In J. Oldham, A. Skodol, & D. Bender (Eds.), Textbook of Personality Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Widiger, T.A., & Sankis, L. (2000). Adult psychopathology: Issues and controversies. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 377-404.
Widiger, T.A. (2000). Personality disorders in the 21st century. Journal of Personality Disorders, 14, 3-16.
Widiger, T.A. (2000). The science of dialectical behavior therapy
. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 7, 101-103.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). The best and the worst of us? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 374-377.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). What can we learn from taxometric analyses? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 528-533.
Skodol, A.E., Gunderson, J.G., Pfohl, B., Widiger, T.A., Livesley, W.J., & Siever, L.J. (2002). The borderline diagnosis I: Psychopathology, comorbidity, and personality structure. Biological Psychiatry
, 51, 936-950.
Skodol, A.E., Siever, L.J., Livesley, W.J., Gunderson, J.G., Pfohl, B., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). The borderline diagnosis II: Biology, genetics, and clinical course. Biological Psychiatry, 51, 951-963
Widiger, T.A., & Seidlitz, L. (2002). Personality, psychopathology, and aging. Journal of Research in Personality, 36. 335-362.
Widiger, T.A. (2003). Clarification of Lenzenweger and Korfine (1992). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 370-371.
Widiger, T.A. (2003). Personality disorder and Axis I psychopathology: the problematic boundary of Axis I and Axis II. Journal of Personality Disorders, 17, 90-108.
Widiger, T.A., & Anderson, K. (2003). Personality and depression in women. Journal of Affective Disorders, 74, 59-66.
Brinkley, C. A., Newman, J.P., Widiger, T.A., & Lynam, D.R. (2004). Two approaches to parsing the heterogeneity of psychopathy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11, 69-94.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. (2004). Typology of Maritally Violent Men: A Discussion of Holtzworth-Monroe and Meehan (2003). Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Five factor model of personality disorder: integrating science and practice. Journal of Research in Personality.
Widiger, T.A., & Samuel, D.B. (in press). Evidence based assessment of personality disorders. Psychological Assessment.
Widiger, T.A., & Samuel, D.B. (in press). Diagnostic categories or dimensions: A question for DSM-V. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
in the diagnosis of personality disorders. The Harvard Mental Health
Letter, 16 (10), 5-7.
Widiger, T.A., Costa, P.T., & McCrae, R.R. (2002). Proposal for Axis II: Diagnosing personality disorders using the five factor model. In P.T. Costa & T.A.
Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 432-456). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). DSM-V. The Clinical Psychologist, 57(1&2), 18-24.
Chard, K.M., & Widiger, T.A. (in press). Abuse, coping, and treatment: A discussion of Ms. S. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Widiger, T.A., & Chard, K.M. (in press). Clinicians from Indostan. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
of alternative MMPI-2
personality disorder measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 502-518.
Lindsay, K.A., Sankis, L.M., & Widiger, T.A. (2000). Gender bias in self-report personality disorder inventories. Journal of Personality Disorders, 14, 218-232.
Anderson, K.G., Sankis, L.M., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Pathology versus statistical infrequency: potential sources of gender bias in personality disorder criteria. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
, 189, 661-668.
Haigler, E.D., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Experimental manipulation of NEO PI-R
items. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77, 339-358.
Lynam, D.R., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Using the five factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders: An expert consensus approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 401-412.
Miller, J.D., Lynam, D.R., Widiger, T.A., & Leukefeld, C. (2001). Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions: Can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy? Journal of Personality, 69, 253-276.
Trull, T.J., Widiger, T.A., & Burr, R. (2001). A structured interview for the assessment of the Five Factor Model of personality: Facet-level relations to the Axis II personality disorders. Journal of Personality, 69, 175-198.
Coker, L.A., Samuel, D.B., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). Maladaptive personality functioning within the Big Five and the FFM. Journal of Personality Disorders, 16, 385-401.
Trull, T.J., Widiger, T.A., Lynam, D.R., & Costa, P.T. (2003). Borderline personality disorder
from the perspective of general personality functioning. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 193-202.
Samuel, D.B., & Widiger, T.A. (2004). Clinicians’ personality descriptions of prototypic personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 18, 286-308.
Verheul, R., & Widiger, T.A. (in press). A meta-analysis
of the prevalence and usage of the personality disorder not otherwise specified
(PDNOS) diagnosis. Journal of Personality Disorders.
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
in the Department of Psychology. His research interests are concerned generally with the diagnosis and classification of psychopathology. He is more specifically interested in the validity of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders...
(DSM-IV); dimensional models of personality disorder
Personality disorder
Personality disorders, formerly referred to as character disorders, are a class of personality types and behaviors. Personality disorders are noted on Axis II of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-IV-TR of the American Psychiatric Association.Personality disorders are...
; assessment of personality disorders with self-report inventories
Self-report inventory
A self-report inventory is a type of psychological test in which a person fills out a survey or questionnaire with or without the help of an investigator...
, unstructured clinical interviews, and semi-structured clinical interviews; gender biases in the diagnosis of mental disorders
Mental illness
A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...
; the relationship of personality to psychopathology; and the differentiation of normal from abnormal psychological functioning. He will typically have anywhere from four to eight graduate students
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
, and one undergraduate honor’s thesis student, completing either their thesis or dissertation within his lab.
Dr. Widiger currently serves as Associate Editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal psychology
Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder...
, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...
, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...
, and Journal of Personality Disorders. Currently serves on the editorial board
Editorial board
The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorial policy will take.- Board makeup :...
of additional journals as a Consulting Editor (e.g., Psychological Bulletin, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Assessment).
In the past, he served as a panel member for NIMH review committees for Clinical Psychopathology and for Behavioral & Biobehavioral Processes and as the Research Coordinator for DSM-IV, helping to develop and monitor the process by which the construction of the diagnostic manual was guided by empirical research
Empirical research
Empirical research is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empirical evidence can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively...
.
Bibliography
Edited Books
Costa, P.T., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Personality disorders and the five-factor model of personality (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological AssociationAmerican Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
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Stricker, G., & Widiger, T.A. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of Psychology (Vol. 8). Clinical Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
, Inc.
Book Chapters
Widiger, T.A. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology (Vol. 3, pp. 32-35). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.Widiger, T.A. (2000). Personality disorders. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology (Vol. 6, pp. 120-124). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). Official classification systems. In W.J. Livesley (Ed.), Handbook of personality disorders (pp. 60-83). NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A., & Bornstein, R.F. (2001). Histrionic, narcissistic, and dependent personality disorders. In H.E. Adams & P. Sutker (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology (3rd ed., pp. 507-529). NY: Plenum.
Widiger, T.A., & Coker, L.A. (2001). Assessing personality disorders. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Clinical personality assessment. Practical approaches (2nd ed., pp. 407-434). New York: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
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First, M.B., Bell, C.B., Cuthbert, B., Krystal, J.H.,.Malison, R., Offord, D.R., Reiss, D., Shea, M.T., Widiger, T.A., & Wisner, K.L. (2002). Personality disorders and relational disorders: A research agenda for addressing crucial gaps in DSM. In D.J. Kupfer, M.B. First, & D.A. Regier (Eds.), A research agenda for DSM-V (pp. 123-199). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
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Trull, T.J., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). The Structured Interview
Structured interview
A structured interview is a quantitative research method commonly employed in survey research. The aim of this approach is to ensure that each interview is presented with exactly the same questions in the same order...
for the Five Factor Model of Personality. In B. De Raad & M. Perugini (Eds.), Big five assessment (pp. 147-170). Bern, Switzerland: Hogrefe & Huber.
Widiger, T.A. (2002). Personality disorders. In M.M. Antony & D.H. Barlow (Eds.), Handbook of assessment, treatment planning, and outcome for psychological disorders (pp. 453-480). NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A. (2002). Values, politics, and science in the construction of the DSMs. In J. Sadler (Ed.), Descriptions and prescriptions: Values, mental disorders, and the DSMs (pp. 25-41). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Widiger, T.A., & Costa, P.T. (2002). Five factor model
Big Five personality traits
In contemporary psychology, the "Big Five" factors of personality are five broad domains or dimensions of personality which are used to describe human personality....
personality disorder research. In P.T. Costa & T.A. Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 59-87). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A., Trull, T.J., Clarkin, J.F., Sanderson, C., & Costa, P.T. (2002). A description of the DSM-IV personality disorders with the five-factor model of personality. In P.T. Costa & T.A. Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 89-99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A., & Coker, L.A. (2003). Mental disorders as discrete clinical conditions: Dimensional versus categorical classification. In M. Hersen & S.M. Turner (Eds.), Adult psychopathology and diagnosis (4th ed., pp. 3-35). NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins, S. (2003). Personality disorders. In A. Tasman, J. Kay, J.A. Lieberman, & M.B. First (Eds.), Psychiatry (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., pp. 1603-1637). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Personality disorders. In R.J. Craig (Ed.), Clinical and diagnostic interviewing (2nd ed., pp. 251-277). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson
Jason Aronson
Jason Aronson is an American publisher of books in the field of psychotherapy. Topics dealt with in these books include child therapy, family therapy, couple therapy, object relations therapy, play therapy, depression, eating disorders, personality disorders, substance abuse, sexual abuse, stress,...
.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Overview of models of psychopathology. In J. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.), Psychopathology in the workplace: Recognition and adaptation (pp. 9-24). NY: Brunner-Routledge.
Coker, L.A.., & Widiger, T.A. (2004). Personality disorders. In J. Maddux and B. Winstead (Eds.), Psychopathology: Foundation for a contemporary understanding (pp. 201-227). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). Classification and diagnosis: Historical development and contemporary issues. In J. Maddux and B. Winstead (Eds.), Psychopathology: Foundations for a contemporary understanding (pp. 63-83). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Psychopathy and DSM-IV psychopathology. In C. Patrick (Ed.), Handbook of psychopathy. NY: Guilford.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Alternatives to DSM-IV Axis II. In W. O’Donohue, K. Fowler, & S.O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Personality Disorders. Sage Publishing Co.
Widiger, T.A., Mullins-Sweatt, S., & Anderson, K. (in press). Personality and depression in women. In C. Keyes & S. Goodman (Eds.), Handbook for the study of women and depression: Views from social, behavioral, and biomedical science. NY: Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. (in press). Categorical and dimensional models of personality disorder. In J. Oldham, A. Skodol, & D. Bender (Eds.), Textbook of Personality Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Review Articles
Widiger, T.A., & Clark, L.A. (2000). Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 946-963.Widiger, T.A., & Sankis, L. (2000). Adult psychopathology: Issues and controversies. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 377-404.
Widiger, T.A. (2000). Personality disorders in the 21st century. Journal of Personality Disorders, 14, 3-16.
Widiger, T.A. (2000). The science of dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical behavioral therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy is a system of therapy originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder...
. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 7, 101-103.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). The best and the worst of us? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 374-377.
Widiger, T.A. (2001). What can we learn from taxometric analyses? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 528-533.
Skodol, A.E., Gunderson, J.G., Pfohl, B., Widiger, T.A., Livesley, W.J., & Siever, L.J. (2002). The borderline diagnosis I: Psychopathology, comorbidity, and personality structure. Biological Psychiatry
Biological psychiatry
Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics and...
, 51, 936-950.
Skodol, A.E., Siever, L.J., Livesley, W.J., Gunderson, J.G., Pfohl, B., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). The borderline diagnosis II: Biology, genetics, and clinical course. Biological Psychiatry, 51, 951-963
Widiger, T.A., & Seidlitz, L. (2002). Personality, psychopathology, and aging. Journal of Research in Personality, 36. 335-362.
Widiger, T.A. (2003). Clarification of Lenzenweger and Korfine (1992). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 370-371.
Widiger, T.A. (2003). Personality disorder and Axis I psychopathology: the problematic boundary of Axis I and Axis II. Journal of Personality Disorders, 17, 90-108.
Widiger, T.A., & Anderson, K. (2003). Personality and depression in women. Journal of Affective Disorders, 74, 59-66.
Brinkley, C. A., Newman, J.P., Widiger, T.A., & Lynam, D.R. (2004). Two approaches to parsing the heterogeneity of psychopathy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11, 69-94.
Widiger, T.A., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. (2004). Typology of Maritally Violent Men: A Discussion of Holtzworth-Monroe and Meehan (2003). Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18.
Widiger, T.A. (in press). Five factor model of personality disorder: integrating science and practice. Journal of Research in Personality.
Widiger, T.A., & Samuel, D.B. (in press). Evidence based assessment of personality disorders. Psychological Assessment.
Widiger, T.A., & Samuel, D.B. (in press). Diagnostic categories or dimensions: A question for DSM-V. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Clinical Papers
Widiger, T.A. (2000). Gender biasSexism
Sexism, also known as gender discrimination or sex discrimination, is the application of the belief or attitude that there are characteristics implicit to one's gender that indirectly affect one's abilities in unrelated areas...
in the diagnosis of personality disorders. The Harvard Mental Health
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
Letter, 16 (10), 5-7.
Widiger, T.A., Costa, P.T., & McCrae, R.R. (2002). Proposal for Axis II: Diagnosing personality disorders using the five factor model. In P.T. Costa & T.A.
Widiger (Eds.), Personality disorders and the five factor model of personality (2nd ed., pp. 432-456). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Widiger, T.A. (2004). DSM-V. The Clinical Psychologist, 57(1&2), 18-24.
Chard, K.M., & Widiger, T.A. (in press). Abuse, coping, and treatment: A discussion of Ms. S. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Widiger, T.A., & Chard, K.M. (in press). Clinicians from Indostan. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
Studies
Hicklin, J., & Widiger, T.A. (2000). Convergent validityConvergent validity
Convergent validity, is the degree to which an operation is similar to other operations that it theoretically should also be similar to. For instance, to show the convergent validity of a test of mathematics skills, the scores on the test can be correlated with scores on other tests that are also...
of alternative MMPI-2
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is one of the most frequently used personality tests in mental health. The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology....
personality disorder measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 502-518.
Lindsay, K.A., Sankis, L.M., & Widiger, T.A. (2000). Gender bias in self-report personality disorder inventories. Journal of Personality Disorders, 14, 218-232.
Anderson, K.G., Sankis, L.M., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Pathology versus statistical infrequency: potential sources of gender bias in personality disorder criteria. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease is a scholarly journal on psychopathology.Founded in 1874, it is the world's oldest independent scientific monthly in the field of human behavior. Articles cover theory, etiology, therapy, social impact of illness, and research methods.Editors:*1874-1881:...
, 189, 661-668.
Haigler, E.D., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Experimental manipulation of NEO PI-R
Revised NEO Personality Inventory
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory, or NEO PI-R, is a psychological personality inventory; a 240-item measure of the Five Factor Model: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Additionally, the test measures six subordinate dimensions of each of...
items. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77, 339-358.
Lynam, D.R., & Widiger, T.A. (2001). Using the five factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders: An expert consensus approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 401-412.
Miller, J.D., Lynam, D.R., Widiger, T.A., & Leukefeld, C. (2001). Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions: Can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy? Journal of Personality, 69, 253-276.
Trull, T.J., Widiger, T.A., & Burr, R. (2001). A structured interview for the assessment of the Five Factor Model of personality: Facet-level relations to the Axis II personality disorders. Journal of Personality, 69, 175-198.
Coker, L.A., Samuel, D.B., & Widiger, T.A. (2002). Maladaptive personality functioning within the Big Five and the FFM. Journal of Personality Disorders, 16, 385-401.
Trull, T.J., Widiger, T.A., Lynam, D.R., & Costa, P.T. (2003). Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder is a personality disorder described as a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person , characterized by depth and variability of moods.The disorder typically involves unusual levels of instability in mood; black and white thinking, or splitting; the...
from the perspective of general personality functioning. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 193-202.
Samuel, D.B., & Widiger, T.A. (2004). Clinicians’ personality descriptions of prototypic personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 18, 286-308.
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Meta-analysis
In statistics, a meta-analysis combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. In its simplest form, this is normally by identification of a common measure of effect size, for which a weighted average might be the output of a meta-analyses. Here the...
of the prevalence and usage of the personality disorder not otherwise specified
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(PDNOS) diagnosis. Journal of Personality Disorders.