Effects of diagnostic disclosure and varying diagnostic terminology on social attitudes to personality disorder: An experimental vignette study.

Personality Disorders
Cliodhna O'Connor, Lisa Murphy

Abstract

Personality disorder (PD) diagnosis is currently in flux, with the latest edition of the International Classification of Diseases proposing to overhaul PD classification. The stigma purportedly attached to PD labels is a common concern in debates about PD diagnosis. However, there is a paucity of data on the general public's attitudes to PD diagnoses. The current study used an experimental vignette method to explore (a) whether attitudes to a person displaying undesirable behavior are affected by disclosing a PD diagnosis, and (b) whether the different variants of PD diagnoses present in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition and International Classification of Diseases elicit different social responses. Participants (n = 328) were recruited via an online platform and randomly assigned to read one of six vignettes. Vignettes described a person displaying socially undesirable behaviors, whose diagnosis was either withheld or defined as Borderline, Antisocial, Mild, Moderate, or Severe PD. Participants then completed a battery of measures assessing their attitudes to the vignette character. Relative to groups who were told of a PD diagnosis, diagnostically unaware participants were less likely to see...Continue Reading

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