Citation

Fuller AK, Blashfield RK, Miller M, Hester T. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 1992; 48(6): 827-831.

Affiliation

Southwestern State Hospital, Thomasville, Georgia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1452772

Abstract

A sample of 176 outpatients at a mental health clinic in rural southern Georgia were rated for the presence or absence of the DMS-III-R sadistic and self-defeating personality disorder criteria. On the basis of these ratings, 48 patients met the criteria for sadistic (n = 14) and self-defeating (n = 41). Surprisingly, half of the patients who met the sadistic criteria also fulfilled the self-defeating criteria. A factor analysis failed to divide the criteria cleanly into sadistic and self-defeating subsets.

Language: en