When the author says a dimensional approach to personality disorders would likely place people with personality problems and personality disorders at the far end of a continuum in lines 27–30, she most likely means that:

Questions below are based on the following information. This passage is adapted from “Personality, Personality Disorder, and Violence: An Introduction” by Mary McMurranand from Personality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence-Based Approach edited by Mary McMurran

and Richard Howard (Wiley 2009).