The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP)

Livesley, W. John; Larstone, Roseann

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“…Livesley's trait model of personality pathology is operationalized through a self-report questionnaire, the Dimensional Assessment of Personality PathologyBasic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ ; Livesley, 2006). A series of small-sample twin studies (Livesley et al 1993(Livesley et al , 1998Jang et al 1996b, c), provided support for the heritability of most of the 18 lower-order DAPP-BQ traits and of all of the four higher-order factors.…”

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Heritability of borderline personality disorder features is similar across three countries

Distel¹,

et al. 2007

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Background. Most of our knowledge about borderline personality disorder features has been obtained through the study of clinical samples. Although these studies are important in their own right, they are limited in their ability to address certain important epidemiological and aetiological questions such as the degree to which there is a genetic influence on the manifestation of borderline personality disorder features. Though family history studies of borderline personality disorder indicate genetic influences, there have been very few twin studies and the degree of genetic influence on borderline personality disorder remains unclear.Method. Data were drawn from twin samples from The Netherlands (n=3918), Belgium (n=904) and Australia (n=674). In total, data were available on 5496 twins between the ages of 18 and 86 years from 3644 families who participated in the study by completion of a mailed self-report questionnaire on borderline personality disorder features.Results. In all countries, females scored higher than males and there was a general tendency for younger adults to endorse more borderline personality disorder features than older adults. Model-fitting results showed that additive genetic influences explain 42 % of the variation in borderline personality disorder features in both men and women and that this heritability estimate is similar across The Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Unique environmental influences explain the remaining 58 % of the variance.Conclusions. Genetic factors play a role in individual differences in borderline personality disorder features in Western society.

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Heritability of borderline personality disorder features is similar across three countries

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“…The following major variables were included in the web-based questionnaire: the Big Five Inventory (BFI) which assesses Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism (John et al, 1991); four dimensions of personality pathology from the Dimensional Assessment for Personality Pathology (DAPP) -Affective Instability, Cognitive Distortion, Identity Problems, and Insecure Attachment; (Livesley, 1990); a self-report lifetime measure of DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) major depression used previously and validated in the Swedish Twin Registry (Kendler et al, 1993); nicotine dependence as assessed by the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (Heatherton et al, 1991); measures of caffeine toxicity and dependence as used previously in the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders (Kendler & Prescott, 1999); and symptoms of pathological gambling obtained from two standard questionnaires (Christenson et al, 1994;Stinchfield, 2003). The questions about gambling were added on July 24, 2005, and therefore are missing on a proportion of the sample.…”

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A Web-Based Study of Personality, Psychopathology and Substance Use in Twin, Other Relative and Relationship Pairs

Kendler

Myers

Potter³

et al. 2009

Twin Res Hum Genet

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W eb-based studies have become increasingly common in the social sciences, but have been rare in genetic epidemiology in general and twin studies in particular. We here review the methods, validity checks and preliminary correlational data from an on-line questionnaire collected from [2005][2006][2007][2008]. During this time period, 44,112 individuals completed the questionnaire. This sample was 65.3% female, 85.4% 18 years or older, 72.0% Caucasian and had a mean educational level of 12.2 years. The sample included 609 twin, 333 sibling and 201 parent-offspring pairs as well as 342 dating partners, 313 'significant other' pairs, 327 spouses and 2,316 friend pairs. A range of checks suggested low levels of invalid data. Correlations for personality, substance use and misuse, lifetime major depression, social attitudes, educational status, and height and weight were broadly similar to those obtained previously using conventional assessment methods. Web-based studies are a relatively easy and inexpensive way to ascertain large numbers of individuals, although obtaining twin pairs is more difficult, and female and monozygotic pairs are overrepresented. The sample is diverse and pair resemblance is generally similar to that obtained using interviews or mailed questionnaires.

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“…In the research on maltreatment and personality pathology, Wonderlich et al (2001) were the first to use the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ; Livesley & Jackson, 2002), a questionnaire designed for the dimensional assessment of personality pathology that distinguishes four higher order dimensions: Emotional Dysregulation, Dissocial Behavior, Inhibitedness, and Compulsivity. They demonstrated a link between sexual abuse and lower-order personality dimensions related to Emotional Dysregulation (Wonderlich et al, 2001).…”

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The Relation Between Dimensions of Normal and Pathological Personality and Childhood Maltreatment in Incarcerated Boys

Nederlof¹,

Ham²,

Dingemans³

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Journal of Personality Disorders

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The relation between dimensions of normal and pathological personality and childhood maltreatment in incarcerated boys Nederlof, E.; van der Ham, J.M.; Dingemans, P.M.J.A.; Oei, T.I. Published in: Journal of Personality DisordersPublication date: 2010 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Nederlof, E., van der Ham, J. M., Dingemans, P. M. J. A., & Oei, T. I. (2010). The relation between dimensions of normal and pathological personality and childhood maltreatment in incarcerated boys. Journal of Personality Disorders, 24(6), 746-762. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. The relation between subtypes of maltreatment and dimensions of personality and personality pathology was investigated in a representative sample of 142 incarcerated Dutch male juveniles. Normal personality dimensions were assessed with the Big Five Inventory, the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire for Adolescents was used to measure pathological personality dimensions, and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire was used to assess childhood maltreatment. The five maltreatment subtypes were found to be differentially and uniquely related to the normal and pathological personality dimensions in juvenile delinquents. The association between the abusive subtypes and Emotional Dysregulation depended on the co-occurrence of neglect. It was concluded that subtypes of maltreatment are distinctively related to dimensions of personality and personality pathology, possibly due to specific gene-environment interactions. Further research on this interplay is needed to be able to recognize genetic vulnerability. Early identification of children at risk could aid to limit the long-term consequences of maltreatment.

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The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP)

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Heritability of borderline personality disorder features is similar across three countries

Heritability of borderline personality disorder features is similar across three countries

A Web-Based Study of Personality, Psychopathology and Substance Use in Twin, Other Relative and Relationship Pairs

The Relation Between Dimensions of Normal and Pathological Personality and Childhood Maltreatment in Incarcerated Boys

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