An investigation of differential item functioning across gender of BPD criteria.

Sharp, Carla; Michonski, Jared D.; Steinberg, Lynne; Fowler, J. Christopher; Frueh, B. Christopher; Oldham, John M.

doi:10.1037/a0035637

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“…(APA, 2013). Likewise, our results are consistent with recent reports of both normal personality (Biderman, 2013; Biderman, Nguyen, Cunningham, Chen, & Watson, 2013) and personality (and non-personality) pathology (Hengartner, Ajdacic-Gross, Rodgers, Mueller, & Roessler, 2014; Hopwood et al, 2011; Jahng et al, 2011; Scott et al, 2013; Sharp et al, 2014; Wolf, Miller, & Brown, 2011). To illustrate, a recent study by Sharp and others (2015) reported that a general underlying factor accounted for common variance across personality disorders, and six specific factors accounted unique variance in personality disorders.…”

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“…More recent work has used measurement invariance (MI) models which can separate observed sex differences into a component reflecting true differences and a component reflecting bias that results from interpreting diagnostic indicators differently for males and females. This work focuses almost exclusively on BPD, and suggests that few items show evidence of bias (Aggen, Neale, Roysamb, Reichborn-Kjennerud, & Kendler, 2009; Hoertel, Peyre, Wall, Limosin, & Blanco, 2014; Jane, Oltmanns, South, & Turkheimer, 2007; Sharp et al, 2014). Item by item invariance analysis in these studies provides interesting information; however, without information about the overall model fit, it is difficult to tell if the latent mean sex differences are meaningful.…”

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A psychometric investigation of gender differences and common processes across borderline and antisocial personality disorders.

Chun¹,

Harris²,

Carrion³

et al. 2017

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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The comorbidity between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is well-established, and the two disorders share many similarities. However, there are also differences across disorders: most notably, BPD is diagnosed more frequently in females and ASPD in males. We investigated if a) comorbidity between BPD and ASPD is attributable to two discrete disorders or the expression of common underlying processes, and b) if the model of comorbidity is true across sex. Using a clinical sample of 1400 drug users in residential substance abuse treatment, we tested three competing models to explore whether the comorbidity of ASPD and BPD should be represented by a single common factor, two correlated factors, or a bifactor structure involving a general and disorder-specific factors. Next, we tested whether our resulting model was meaningful by examining its relationship with criterion variables previously reported to be associated with BPD and ASPD. The bifactor model provided the best fit and was invariant across sex. Overall, the general factor of the bifactor model significantly accounted for a large percentage of the variance in criterion variables, whereas the BPD and AAB specific factors added little to the models. The association of the general and specific factor with all criterion variables was equal for males and females. Our results suggest common underlying vulnerability accounts for both the comorbidity between BPD and AAB (across sex), and this common vulnerability drives the association with other psychopathology and maladaptive behavior. This in turn has implications for diagnostic classification systems and treatment. General scientific summary This study found that, for both males and females, borderline and antisocial personality disorders show a large degree of overlap, and little uniqueness. The commonality between BPD and ASPD mainly accounted for associations with criterion variables. This suggests that BPD and ASPD show a large common core that accounts for their comorbidity.

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A psychometric investigation of gender differences and common processes across borderline and antisocial personality disorders.

Chun¹,

Harris²,

Carrion³

et al. 2017

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…The most likely reason for this lack of association rests in the instability of the AXIS-II classification system. Several studies have shown substantial cross-loading between diagnostic criteria and various sub-types of PD leading to high level of correlation between PD diagnoses (Sharp et al, 2014;Skodol, 2011). Aligned with this consideration, there is considerable weight behind integrating the various subtypes of PD diagnoses (Tyrer et al, 2011).…”

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“…Our results point to the taxonomic model as being particularly sensitive to evidence the general link between attachment experiences and representations, and increase the risk of PD. According to recent bi-factor models of the latent structure of PDs (Fowler et al, 2015;Sharp et al, 2014), symptoms of borderline PD appear to be higher order generic indicators of personality pathology.…”

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Categorical and dimensional approaches in the evaluation of the relationship between attachment and personality disorders: an empirical study

Chiesa

Cirasola

Williams

et al. 2016

Attachment & Human Development

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Although several studies have highlighted the relationship between attachment states of mind and personality disorders, their findings have not been consistent, possibly due to the application of the traditional taxonomic classification model of attachment. A more recently developed dimensional classification of attachment representations, including more specific aspects of trauma-related representations, may have advantages. In this study, we compare specific associations and predictive power of the categorical attachment and dimensional models applied to 230 Adult Attachment Interview transcripts obtained from personality disordered and nonpsychiatric subjects. We also investigate the role that current levels of psychiatric distress may have in the prediction of PD. The results showed that both models predict the presence of PD, with the dimensional approach doing better in discriminating overall diagnosis of PD. However, both models are less helpful in discriminating specific PD diagnostic subtypes. Current psychiatric distress was found to be the most consistent predictor of PD capturing a large share of the variance and obscuring the role played by attachment variables. The results suggest that attachment parameters correlate with the presence of PD alone and have no specific associations with particular PD subtypes when current psychiatric distress is taken into account.

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“…Moreover, few studies have evaluated invariance across gender in youth. Among adults, it has been found that it may be easier for males to endorse anger and impulsivity (Aggen, Neale, Røysamb, Reichborn-Kjennerud, & Kendler, 2009; Sharp, Michonski, et al, 2014) and that females more easily endorse self-harm and suicidality (Hoertel, Peyre, Wall, Limosin, & Blanco, 2014) and affective instability (Aggen et al, 2009). The single study that examined gender invariance of the BPFS-C-11 in adolescents found invariance of scores on the BPFS-C-11 in adolescents age 14-20 (Fossati et al, 2016).…”

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Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11: Measurement invariance over time and across gender in a community sample of adolescents.

Vanwoerden¹,

Garey²,

Ferguson³

et al. 2019

Psychological Assessment

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The Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) was recently shortened using item response theory to an 11-item version that is optimal for use in epidemiological studies and repeated assessment over time. Only 1 study has examined invariance of the BPFS-C-11 items across gender and no study has done so over time. The present study employed a longitudinal design to address this gap by evaluating measurement invariance across gender and over time during the transition into adulthood in a diverse community-based sample of 755 adolescents (56% female). Results indicated measurement variance for items measuring personal relationships and impulsivity/recklessness, with females having a greater probability of endorsing items regarding relationship instability and males more likely to endorse impulsivity, despite an equal position on the latent trait. Overall, there was partial measurement invariance of a single dimension of borderline features between males and females and full longitudinal invariance of this factor through the transition into young adulthood. The current findings provide empirical evidence supporting the reliability of BPFS-C-11 scores as a measure of borderline pathology (BP) during late adolescence and early adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record

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An investigation of differential item functioning across gender of BPD criteria.

Cited by 26 publications

References 29 publications

A psychometric investigation of gender differences and common processes across borderline and antisocial personality disorders.

A psychometric investigation of gender differences and common processes across borderline and antisocial personality disorders.

Categorical and dimensional approaches in the evaluation of the relationship between attachment and personality disorders: an empirical study

Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11: Measurement invariance over time and across gender in a community sample of adolescents.

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