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Sociotropy—Autonomy and Other Personality Measures
Sociotropy and autonomy have been examined in relation to measures in personality psychology, such as the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Costa & McCrae, 1985) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975). Sociotropy appears related to other measures of theoretically congruent constructs like dependency, lack of assertion, and introversion (Cappeliez, 1993; Gilbert & […]
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A Proposed Definition of Personality-Related Disorders
All individuals have personalities that can be characterized in terms of the fi ve basic factors, and they are likely to encounter characteristic kinds of life problems, especially when there are confl icts between their dispositions and their life circumstances. To take a relatively benign example, individuals high in O (who value variety) may be […]
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The Definition of Personality
Some readers may be puzzled by the assertion that there are no qualitative differences between normal and abnormal personality. Surely a hebephrenic schizophrenic or a severely demented individual has a psychological organization qualitatively different from the average person’s. If personality is defined broadly as, for example, “the entire mental organization of a human being at […]
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Personality Disorders and taxometric research
The categorical versus dimensional status of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’s (DSM-IV; APA, 1994) axis II is a particularly important question, which taxometric research should play a major role in resolving. Although the DSM-IV represents PDs as distinct categories and diagnoses them as simply present or absent, dimensional models of PDs are […]
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What is Personality Diatheses
Dimensions of normal personality often shade into abnormality or at least social undesirability at one pole. However, only a few of these dimensions are explicitly conceptualized as vulnerabilities for psychopathology. These “diatheses” are particularly important constructs in the study of abnormal personality. If they are shown to be precursors of mental disorders, they may supply […]
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Implicit and Explicit Measures of Personality
McClelland et al. (1989) distinguished between implicit and explicit methods of personality assessment. Explicit measures, such as self-report instruments, assess psychological characteristics and needs individuals recognize about themselves and which they can articulate. In contrast, by analyzing a representative sample of an individual’s behavior during the assessment process, implicit or performance-based measures, such as the […]
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What is Personality Failure
Many of the diffi culties created by using extreme trait levels to defi ne disorder occur because trait constructs represent proclivities—tendencies to exhibit a given class of behaviors—whereas the concept of disorder refers more to competencies and disturbances of function. This suggests the need to defi ne disorder independently of trait extremity. There is also […]
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The Distinction BetweenNormaland Disordered Personality
Empirical research on the DAPP has yielded several findings that are directly relevant to the distinction between normal and disordered personality: (a) the structure of primary and secondary personality traits is similar in clinical samples of patients with personality disorder and general population samples; (b) the distribution of scores in general population and clinical samples […]
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What is Borderline Personality Disorder
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER is a term that identifies a heterogenous group of patients with serious character pathology and behavioral dis- turbances. The main features of this disorder are behavior that is impulsive, dramatic, and often self- destructive; moods that are labile and reactive to life circumstances; interpersonal relationships that are stormy; and a sense of […]
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The case of ‘dangerous and severe personality disorder’
In recent years, the British State has exerted its right to impose an administrative concept of personality disorder in order to cut through or over-ride professional ambivalence. This has involved the construction of and use of a new category of ‘dangerous and severe personality disorder’ (DSPD) and new legislation has been devised to provide legal […]
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