TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender bias in self-report personality disorder inventories
AU - Lindsay, K. A.
AU - Sankis, L. M.
AU - Widiger, T. A.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - There has been considerable controversy and research regarding gender biases in the diagnosis of personality disorders, but few studies have explored whether personality disorder self-report inventories might contain gender biases. The current study investigated whether items from three commonly used inventories evidenced a potential for gender bias. Subjects were from outpatient mental health clinics. Items were considered gender biased if they exhibited gender differences and failed to correlate with or, more importantly, correlated negatively with dysfunction. Thirty-eight items evidenced potential bias, the majority of which were from Narcissistic scales. The implications of the results for the clinical assessment of purportedly maladaptive personality traits and for the construction of personality disorder scales are discussed.
AB - There has been considerable controversy and research regarding gender biases in the diagnosis of personality disorders, but few studies have explored whether personality disorder self-report inventories might contain gender biases. The current study investigated whether items from three commonly used inventories evidenced a potential for gender bias. Subjects were from outpatient mental health clinics. Items were considered gender biased if they exhibited gender differences and failed to correlate with or, more importantly, correlated negatively with dysfunction. Thirty-eight items evidenced potential bias, the majority of which were from Narcissistic scales. The implications of the results for the clinical assessment of purportedly maladaptive personality traits and for the construction of personality disorder scales are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1521/pedi.2000.14.3.218
DO - 10.1521/pedi.2000.14.3.218
M3 - Article
C2 - 11019746
AN - SCOPUS:0033797129
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 14
SP - 218
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
IS - 3
ER -