The authors gave the self-report Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire--
Revised (PDQ-R) to 87 applicants for inpatient treatment of severe
personality psychopathology and, blind to these results, diagnosed
personality disorders in the applicants by using the Personality Disorder
Examination and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III- R
Personality Disorders. The PDQ-R was not a substitute for a structured
interview assessment of axis II disorders because many of its diagnoses
were false positives. Its high sensitivity and moderate specificity for
most of the axis II disorders suggest, however, that it is an efficient
instrument for screening patients with DSM-III-R personality disorders.
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