Concerning the content of the domains, studies suggest that especially the domains identity, aggression, primitive defenses, and reality impairment depict specific areas crucial for PDs: among all domains of personality organization, these scales showed the highest associations with the number of borderline PD criteria [ 186 ••], and correlated highly significant with external measures of clinical severity, even when controlled for overall personality functioning [ 41 ••].
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Three Dimensional Approaches to Personality Disorders: a Review on Personality Functioning, Personality Structure, and Personality Organization.
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