Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 99-105 , March 2006

Exploratory factor analysis of borderline personality disorder criteria in hospitalized adolescents

  • Daniel F. Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, 1783 El Camino Real, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA.
  • ,
  • Thomas H. McGlashan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
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  • Carlos M. Grilo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA

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 This work was supported, in part, by a grant from the NIH (K05MH01654).

PII: S0010-440X(05)00082-9

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.07.003

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 99-105 , March 2006