Diagnostic categories or dimensions? A question for the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders--fifth edition.

By T. Widiger, D. Samuel. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

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A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders: a facet level analysis. (2008, positive): “…of this categorical system (Clark, 2005, 2007; Krueger, Markon, Patrick, & Iacono, 2005; Livesley, 2003; Trull & Durrett, 2005; Watson, 2005; Widiger & Samuel, 2005) and have suggested alternative dimensional models of personality disorder (Clark, Simms, Wu, & Casillas, in press; Livesley,…”
Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: shifting to a dimensional model. (2007, methodology): “We generally recommend that clinicians use both a self-report inventory and a semistructured interview because multiple methods provide more valid assessments of personality disorder (Clark, in press; Widiger & Samuel, 2005b).”
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies (2017, neutral): “…evidence of categorical entities in mental health to challenge this assumption (Haslam et al., 2012; Markon & Krueger, 2005; Walton et al., 2011; Widiger & Samuel, 2005; Wright et al., 2013), but if such entities were to emerge, they could be incorporated easily into a quantitative nosology.”
Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview (2019, background): “Psychological research suggests that people are better represented by continuously valued scores, where possible, than discrete categories (Baumeister et al., 2007; Widiger and Samuel, 2005; McCrae and Costa Jr., 1989).”
Clinical Staging of Psychiatric Disorders: A Heuristic Framework for Choosing Earlier, Safer and more Effective Interventions (2006, methodology): “As with any diagnostic process, clinical staging imposes subcategories on dimensional phenomena [22].”
Anger and Psychopathology (2010, background): “Psychiatric diagnostic classifications are predominantly polythetic categories or fuzzy sets (Jablensky, 2005; Livesley, 1986), and there has been long-standing controversy with regard to psychopathology and diagnostic categories (e.g., Follette & Houts, 1996; Widiger & Samuel, 2005).”
A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology (2018, background): “However, no mental disorder has ever been empirically verified as a categorical entity (Carragher et al., 2014; Haslam, Holland, & Kuppens, 2012; Markon & Krueger, 2005; Walton, Ormel, & Krueger, 2011; Widiger & Samuel, 2005; Wright et al., 2013).”
Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders (2018, background): “There is substantial between-diagnosis comorbidity (Clark, 2007; Sharp et al., 2015; Widiger & Samuel, 2005), such that people with a PD diagnosis commonly present with more than one disorder (Zimmerman & Coryell, 1989) or PD ‘not otherwise specified’ (Verhuel, Bartak, & Widiger, 2007).”
Assessment and diagnosis of personality disorder: perennial issues and an emerging reconceptualization. (2007, background): “However, conceptual difficulties and controversies have persisted (Clark et al. 1997, Livesley 2003, Widiger & Samuel 2005), there is widespread dissatisfaction in the field, and articles critiquing the domain are common ( Jablensky 2002, Livesley 2003, Millon 2002).”
The Future of Emotion Regulation Research (2013, background): “This point resonates with the recent interest in dimensional models of psychopathology (e.g., Clark, 2005; Cuthbert, 2005; Krueger, Markon, Patrick, & Iacono, 2005; Watson, 2005; Widiger & Samuel, 2005; see Research Domain Criteria: Insel et al., 2010).”
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health Problems: Current Status and Future Directions (2020, background): “Indeed, to date no biological markers or cognitive processes have been identified that are uniquely associated with a specific disorder (Kupfer, First, & Regier, 2002; Widiger & Samuel, 2005).”
Performance of the entropy as an index of classification accuracy in latent profile analysis: A Monte Carlo simulation study (2017, neutral): “…3 广东省未成年人心理健康与教育认知神经科学实验室, 广州 510006) (4 中国政法大学社会学院, 北京 102249) 摘要本研究通过蒙特卡洛模拟考查了分类精确性指数 Entropy 及其变式受样本量、潜类别数目、类别距离和指标个数及其组合的影响情况。研究结果表明：(1) 尽管 Entropy 值与分类精确性高相关, 但其值随类别数、样本量和指标数的变化而变化, 很难确定唯一的临界值; (2) 其他条件不变的情况下, 样本量越大, Entropy 的值越小, 分类精确性越差; (3) 类别距离对分类精确性的影响具有跨样本量和跨类别数的一致性;…”