Gender-Typed Behavioral Examples of Histrionic Personality Disorder

@article{Sprock2000GenderTypedBE,
  title={Gender-Typed Behavioral Examples of Histrionic Personality Disorder},
  author={June Sprock},
  journal={Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment},
  year={2000},
  volume={22},
  pages={107-122}
}
  • J. Sprock
  • Published 1 June 2000
  • Psychology
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Findings that clinicians diagnose Histrionic Personality Disorder more frequently in women may be due to the feminine gender weighting of the criteria or because the diagnostic label elicits a feminine stereotype. Using a method derived from the act-frequency approach, undergraduates generated behavioral examples of the DSM-IIIR and DSM-IV Histrionic criteria without regard to sex or according to sex role instructions that elicited masculine or feminine sex roles. A national sample of… 
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