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In addition to the requisite categorical approach of DSM-IV, a dimensional approach was included to assess pathological personality trait domains and trait facets as well as a "Level of Personality Functioning-Scale" as an overall measure of the severity of personality dysfunction [ 17].
Whereas the dimensional approach is getting more and more popular for rating affective behaviours in continuous time domains, e.g., arousal and valence, methodologies to take into account reaction lags of the human raters are still rare.
Another important advantage to examining the endophenotypes is that they are quantifiable as continuous measures, and therefore, a dimensional approach is tenable while employing endophenotypes as one of the outcome variables.
Moreover, bipolar depressive states are not homogeneous and this dimensional approach is useful for discriminating different forms of bipolar depression.
Moreover, it is difficult compare the prevalence of MDD reported by investigations when a dimensional approach is used.
In the present study, the dimensional approach is utilised in order to explore the structure of parenting in present-day Norway.
In contrast to the companion paper [ 17], which analysed the symptom-based diagnostic characteristics of 1068 probands and 339 siblings, a dimensional approach is chosen in the present paper.
For (childhood) anxiety a dimensional approach is common which assumes that the disorder represents the extreme end of a continuum ranging from mild and nonclinical deficits via subclinical problems to severe psychopathology [ 12, 13].
