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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONALITY DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN LATE ADOLESCENTS

NCJ Number
141260
Journal
Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1993) Pages: 33-42
Author(s)
J G Johnson
Date Published
1993
Length
10 pages
Annotation
The Inventory of Psychosocial Development (IPD) and the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire, Revised (PDQ-R), were administered to 106 male and female undergraduate students to investigate the extent to which psychosocial development through the first five stages of Erik Erikson's theory of personality development was associated with "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual" (third edition, revised, "DSM-III-R") Axis II personality disorder symptomatology.
Abstract
IPD scores assessing negative resolutions of the first five Eriksonian developmental stages consistently predicted scores on the PDQ-R composite scale and the PDQ-R impairment/distress index which are measures of overall personality disorder symptomatology. The IPD subscales varied substantially in the extent to which they predicted scores on the 13 PDQ-R subscales that assess symptoms of specific DSM- III-R personality disorders which range from the trust versus mistrust subscale and which predicted scores on 12 of the 13 PDQ-R subscales, to the initiative versus guilt subscale which predicted scores on only six of the 13 PDQ-R subscales. These findings were consistent with earlier findings which indicate that psychosocial development predicts adult and adolescent mental health status and suggest that it may prove fruitful for researchers to investigate the extent to which psychosocial development predisposes individuals to development of both personality disorders and Axis I psychopathology. 2 tables and 33 references