A NORMATIVE STUDY OF THE COOLIDGE-AXIS-II-INVENTORY

The Coolidge Axis-II Inventory (CATI) is a 200-item self-report invent ory that is designed to measure DSM-IV personality disorders (PD's). N orms with a sample of 1,790 Canadian college students are compared wit h a US sample of 573 college students and 36 elderly subjects. Compari sons for the 11 DSM-IV personality disorder scales are made with sever al age groups and with gender. Some interesting similarities and diffe rences were observed. With the Canadian sample, a gender difference wa s found on the antisocial scale. Age differences were found for on sev eral PD scales in that younger respondents (17-24 years) scored higher than the older ones (25-57 years). This information is likely to be h elpful to clinicians in monitoring age related behavioral changes in p ersonality disorder. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.