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September 8, 2026Personality and Mental Health

Can ICD‐11 Personality Disorder Trait Dimensions Be Categorically Specified?

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GGGunnar Valdemar GrunertESErik SimonsenMKMickey Kongerslev

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Overview

Cross-sectional study finds dichotomous ratings adequately capture personality disorder traits in psychiatric patients, indicating ICD-11 categorical specifiers are clinically viable.

Key Points

  • To evaluate whether clinicians can adequately capture variance in ICD-11 personality disorder trait dimensions using dichotomous (present versus absent) single-item ratings compared to dimensional ratings.
  • Assessed a sample of 238 patients evaluated by their treating clinicians using both dimensional and dichotomous single-item ratings across five ICD-11 trait domains.
  • Administered the Informant Personality Inventory for ICD-11 (IPiC) completed by clinicians as the standardized criterion measure.
  • Dichotomous ratings correlated moderately with corresponding IPiC domain scores, except for negative affectivity, which showed a small but statistically significant association.
  • Dimensional ratings correlated moderately to strongly with IPiC scores and demonstrated statistically significant superiority over dichotomous ratings only for disinhibition and dissociality.

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Grunert et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd7ab58e84d0ff5b468e9https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.70102
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