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Reflecting the recent consensus that challenges in personality functioning often onsets in adolescence, and the move toward dimensional models of personality pathology such as the level of personality functioning (LPF) of the alternative model for personality disorders, it is important to have validated measures that can assess LPF in young people. The Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF 2.0) is the briefest measure of LPF and may be particularly well suited for assessing LPF in youth; however, it has yet to be formally validated in youth. Therefore, the current investigation evaluated the psychometric properties of the LPFS-BF 2.0 in adolescents drawn from a community sample of ethnically diverse North American youth (
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