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Exploratory and confirmatory factorial structure of the MCMI-III personality disorders: overlapping versus non-overlapping scales
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Autor/a:
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Cuevas, Lara; García Rodríguez, Luis Francisco; Aluja Fabregat, Antón; García, Oscar
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Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the factorial structure of the 14 Personality Disorder (PD’s) scales of the MCMI-III for the overlapping and non-overlapping scales, independently. Previous exploratory studies using different factor extraction procedures inform that the structure of MCMI-III personality disorders has between 2 and 4 factors. Methods: The present study used a large sample of 674 non-clinical subjects divided at random in two groups: a) calibration, and b) validation. In the calibration group, principal component analysis with orthogonal rotation was carried out, obtaining 2, 3 and 4 factors for the overlapping and non-overlapping scales independently. In the validation group, the three models were compared using confirmatory factorial analysis techniques. Results and Conclusions: The exploratory and confirmatory results indicate that the 4-factor solution is the most plausible. Although the congruence coefficients between non-overlapping and overlapping scales in the 4-factor solution were higher, confirmatory factor analysis showed that models designed from overlapping scales did not fit well to data. |
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-MCMI-III
-Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis
-Personality disorders |
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cc-by-nc (c) Universidad de Zaragoza, 2008
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Universidad de Zaragoza
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