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Personality: dark traits and pathology

McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder.

MSI-BPD

What it measures
Borderline personality disorder screen; 10 items mapping to the 9 DSM BPD criteria (paranoia/dissociation split across 2 items)
Length and format
10 items. true/false (yes/no; 0-10 total) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many: AR, FI, FR, FA (Persian), Urdu, PT-BR, ES, etc.
Normative data
Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Zanarini, M. C., et al. (2003). A screening measure for BPD: The McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD). Journal of Personality Disorders, 17(6), 568-573.

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