Getting the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Ready for Clinical Practice: Population-Representative Norms That Embrace Uncertainty
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) is the standard measure of the maladaptive traits in the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders, but normative information for score interpretation has remained limited. Existing norms refer to the U.S. population, are not conditioned on age and gender, and report point values without any quantification of uncertainty. We derived norms for the facets, domains, and total scores of the full PID-5 and its abbreviated versions, referenced to the German general population and conditional on age and gender. A modular Bayesian pipeline combined a probability-based reference sample (N = 4,727) with three “donor” samples that completed the full instrument (N = 2,471), linked via 34 common items. The norm tables quantify uncertainty at two levels, with credible bands for every norm value and score-conditional intervals for every raw score, and can be applied through a free online scoring platform.
Source: PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7214616230