Converging Evidence for the Latent Structure of Antisocial Personality Disorder

Marcus, David K.; Ruscio, John; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Hughes, Kathleen T.

doi:10.1037/e707872007-001

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“…The FMM is a special case of the normal finite mixture model. In an applied study, Lenzenweger, McLachlan, and Rubin (2007) found that taxometrics and an unconstrained finite mixture model produced consistent results, and Marcus, Ruscio, Lilienfeld, and Hughes (2008) reported taxometrics and latent class analysis (LCA) yield consistent results. LCA is a submodel of the more general FMM that resembles most closely the main idea behind taxometrics.…”

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Latent Class Detection and Class Assignment: A Comparison of the MAXEIG Taxometric Procedure and Factor Mixture Modeling Approaches

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Tueller

2010

Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal

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Taxometric procedures such as MAXEIG and factor mixture modeling (FMM) are used in latent class clustering, but they have very different sets of strengths and weaknesses. Taxometric procedures, popular in psychiatric and psychopathology applications, do not rely on distributional assumptions. Their sole purpose is to detect the presence of latent classes. The procedures capitalize on the assumption that, due to mean differences between two classes, item covariances within class are smaller than item covariances between the classes. FMM goes beyond class detection and permits the specification of hypothesis-based within-class covariance structures ranging from local independence to multidimensional within-class factor models. In principle, FMM permits the comparison of alternative models using likelihood-based indexes. These advantages come at the price of distributional assumptions. In addition, models are often highly parameterized and susceptible to misspecifications of the within-class covariance structure. Following an illustration with an empirical data set of binary depression items, the MAXEIG procedure and FMM are compared in a simulation study focusing on class detection and the assignment of subjects to the latent classes. FMM generally outperformed MAXEIG in terms of class detection and class assignment. Substantially different class sizes negatively impacted the performance of both approaches, whereas low class separation was much more problematic for MAXEIG than for the FMM.

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Latent Class Detection and Class Assignment: A Comparison of the MAXEIG Taxometric Procedure and Factor Mixture Modeling Approaches

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Tueller

2010

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“…Marcus et al (2006) administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II; First et al, 1997) to 1,146 male prison inmates and individuals court ordered to residential drug treatment and showed that DSM-IV ASPD was structurally dimensional. Marcus et al (2008) examined the structure of ASPD among 6,795 subjects comprising alcoholics, their relatives, and controls from the Collaborative Study on Genetics and Alcoholism (Edenberg et al, 2005). DSM-IV diagnoses of ASPD, derived from the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism (Bucholz et al, 1994), were found to be dimensional.…”

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“…Lifetime rates of SUDs, although not assessed in these surveys, would be expected to exceed 80%. The studies of Marcus et al (2008) included individuals preselected for alcohol dependence and their relatives at high risk for alcoholism, and the Marcus et al (2006) study conducted partly among individuals in SUD treatment shared high, although unspecifi ed, levels of comorbidity between CD and ASPD and SUDs. Because of this aspect of these samples, some of the respondents' antisocial behaviors may have resulted from their SUDs (e.g., illegal selling or thefts to obtain money for substances).…”

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DSM-IV Antisocial Personality Disorder and Conduct Disorder: Evidence for Taxonic Structures Among Individuals With and Without Substance Use Disorders in the General Population

Kerridge

Saha

Hasin

2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The categorical-dimensional status of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition)conduct disorder (CD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a source of controversy. This study examined whether the underlying structure of DSM-IV CD and ASPD was dimensional or categorical (taxonic) among individuals with and without substance use disorders. Method: Using a national large representative survey of U.S. adults (n = 43,093), taxometric analyses of DSM-IV CD and ASPD diagnostic criteria were conducted on the total sample and among those with and without substance use disorders. Results: Results of three taxometric procedures were consistent in showing that the structures underlying DSM-IV CD and ASPD were clearly taxonic in the total sample and among individuals with and without substance use disorders. Comparison curve fi t indices exceeded 0.57 for each model. Conclusions: Taxonic fi ndings of the present study were in contrast to the dimensional results of prior taxometric research among incarcerated samples with substantial comorbidity of antisocial syndromes and substance use disorders. Results supported the categorical representation and diagnostic thresholds of ASPD and CD as defi ned in DSM-IV and DSM-5. That the structure of ASPD and CD may be taxonic suggests that further research on these disorders use group comparative designs in which samples with and without these disorders are compared in terms of sociodemographic and clinical correlates, comorbidity, and treatment utilization. The taxonic structure of ASPD and CD may contribute to future research on causal processes through which these antisocial syndromes develop. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 75, 496-509, 2014)

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“…Marcus et al 9 postulam que transtornos da personalidade sejam abordados como se manifestando em uma dimensão contínua e não como um diagnóstico categórico. O MCMI, portanto, se configuraria como um instrumento ideal para mensurar tais transtornos.…”

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Estudos de adaptação do Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III para avaliação de aspectos psicopatológicos da personalidade no Brasil

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J. bras. psiquiatr.

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Converging Evidence for the Latent Structure of Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Latent Class Detection and Class Assignment: A Comparison of the MAXEIG Taxometric Procedure and Factor Mixture Modeling Approaches

Latent Class Detection and Class Assignment: A Comparison of the MAXEIG Taxometric Procedure and Factor Mixture Modeling Approaches

DSM-IV Antisocial Personality Disorder and Conduct Disorder: Evidence for Taxonic Structures Among Individuals With and Without Substance Use Disorders in the General Population

Estudos de adaptação do Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III para avaliação de aspectos psicopatológicos da personalidade no Brasil

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