@article{ref1,
title="Intermittent explosive disorder-integrated research diagnostic criteria: convergent and discriminant validity",
journal="Journal of psychiatric research",
year="2006",
author="McCloskey, Michael S. and Berman, Mitchell E. and Noblett, Kurtis L. and Coccaro, Emil F.",
volume="40",
number="3",
pages="231-242",
abstract="Research on intermittent explosive disorder (IED) has been hindered by vague and restrictive DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. Integrated research criteria have been developed for IED (IED-IR) that address the DSM-IV criteria's shortcomings. The purpose of this study was to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the IED-IR criteria set by comparing adults meeting these criteria (n=56) to healthy controls (n=56) and to individuals with an Axis I major mental disorder (n=33) or an Axis II personality disorder (n=22) diagnoses on measures of aggression (self-report and behavioral) and global functioning. IED-IR individuals demonstrated higher levels of aggression compared to the other three groups, and were rated as more impaired than the healthy control and Axis I individuals. Subgroup analyses showed that IED-IR subjects who did not meet DSM IED criteria did not differ from DSM IED subjects on self-report measures of aggressiveness or global functioning. Furthermore, the IED-IR subjects evidenced more behavioral aggression than their DSM-IED counterparts.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3956",
doi="10.1016/j.jpsychires.2005.07.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2005.07.004"
}