Personality Structure in Psychotics by Factorization of Objective Clinical Tests

To research workers in personality measurement the advance of routine testing procedures in clinical psychology has seemed peculiarly sluggish. Whereas solid theoretical foundations have been found for an account of the normal personality structure in factor analytic terms (5, 6, 7) and a rich variety of new tests has been created (8, 9, 14), the clinicians have confined themselves to one or two “gadget” tests, conceived with no more explicit relation to personality structure than a patent medicine has to modern physiological principles. The present research aims to bring factor structure measurement in a clinical population into relation with that found in normals and to provide a first, reproducible, test battery covering at least a dozen factors for use in clinics able to give sufficient time for valid and reliable measures of the primary personality dimensions.

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Five Factor Model and Personality Disorder

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.4 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas A. Widiger ◽

Whitney L. Gore ◽

Cristina Crego ◽

Stephanie L. Rojas ◽

Joshua R. Oltmanns

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Dimensional Model ◽

Normal Personality ◽

Personality Disorder Scales ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the relationship of the Five Factor Model (FFM) to personality disorder. The FFM has traditionally been viewed as a dimensional model of normal personality structure. However, it should probably be viewed as a dimensional model of general personality structure, including maladaptive as well as adaptive personality traits. Discussed herein is the empirical support for the coverage of personality disorders within the FFM; the ability of the FFM to explain the convergence and divergence among personality disorder scales; the relationship of the FFM to the DSM-5 dimensional trait model; the empirical support for maladaptivity within both poles of each FFM domain (focusing in particular on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness); and the development of scales for the assessment of maladaptive variants of the FFM.

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Differences in Personality Traits between Juvenile Delinquents and Nondelinquent Juveniles according to Cattell’s 16-Factor Model of Normal Personality Structure

ARAB JOURNAL FOR SECURITY STUDIES ◽

10.26735/16588428.2019.021 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 305-316

Author(s):

Hayfa T. Elbokai

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Juvenile Delinquents ◽

Factor Model ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Normal Personality

تهدف الدراسة الحالية إلى معرفة الفروق في سمات الشخصية بين الأحداث الجانحين وغير الجانحين باستخدام اختبار العوامل الستة عشر للشخصية. ولتحقيق هذا الهدف قامت الباحثة بتطبيق اختبار كاتل للعوامل الستة عشر للشخصية على عينة من الأحداث الجانحين والجانحات بدار تربية وتأهيل الأحداث ومركز الإصلاح والتأهيل للفتيات في عمان، بعينة بلغ عددها (40) جانحًا وجانحة مقسمة بالتساوي بينهما، وعينة من غير الجانحين تم اختيارها من طلبة مدارس عمان في المرحلة الثانوية، بلغ عددها (60) طالبًا وطالبة. وخلصت الدراسة إلى وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين الذكور الجانحين وغير الجانحين في عاملين من عوامل الشخصية، هما (الدفء، والتوتر)، الدفء لصالح الجانحين والتوتر لصالح الأسوياء، وهذا يعني أن الجانحين أكثر دفئًا من الأسوياء في حين أن الأسوياء أكثر توترًا من الجانحين

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Measurement and Research Using the Big Five, HEXACO, and Narrow Traits: A Primer for Researchers and Practitioners

10.31234/osf.io/a78g2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeromy Anglim ◽

Peter O'Connor

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Big Five ◽

Factor Models ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Personality Measurement ◽

Big Five Model ◽

Alternative Measures ◽

Personality Facets ◽

Descriptive Framework ◽

Hierarchical Representations

Objective. Personality traits influence human behaviour across a broad range of situations and are consequently relevant to many theoretical and applied disciplines. In this perspective piece, we provide an overview of the logic underpinning personality measurement and review major personality taxonomies. We provide an extensive set of recommendations for researchers and practitioners on when and how to use measures of personality traits. Method. We overview a range of taxonomic representations of personality structure focusing particularly on hierarchical representations and five and six factor models such as the Big Five and HEXACO models. We review the various strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Results. The review outlines the major reasons for the dominance of the Big Five model, and suggests it is a good descriptive framework for studying personality in general. However we suggest that researchers and practitioners also consider alternative taxonomic personality representations such as the HEXACO. We provide a range of scenarios whereby alternative frameworks will be more appropriate than the Big Five and offer recommendations both for choosing measures in general and for implementing studies examining personality facets. Conclusions. Whilst the Big Five represents an excellent general personality framework that is appropriate across multiple situations, researchers and practitioners should be aware of alternative measures and utilise them where appropriate.

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Patterns of normal personality structure among chronic pain patients

Pain ◽

10.1016/0304-3959(92)90129-y ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 37-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

James B. Wade ◽

Linda M. Dougherty ◽

Robert P. Hart ◽

Diane B. Cook

Keyword(s):

Chronic Pain ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Normal Personality ◽

Chronic Pain Patients ◽

Pain Patients

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Anankastia or Psychoticism? Which One Is Better Suited for the Fifth Trait in the Pathological Big Five: Insight From the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits Perspective

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648386 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Włodzimierz Strus ◽

Patryk Łakuta ◽

Jan Cieciuch

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorders ◽

Big Five ◽

Short Form ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Classification Systems ◽

Clinical Population ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Fifth Dimension

Both the ICD-11 and the DSM-5 (Section III) classification systems introduced dimensional models of personality disorders, with five broad domains called the Pathological Big Five. Nevertheless, despite large congruence between the two models, there are also substantial differences between them, with the most evident being the conceptualization of the fifth dimension: Anankastia in the ICD-11 vs. Psychoticism in the DSM-5. The current paper seeks an answer to the question of which domain is structurally better justified as the fifth trait in the dimensional model of personality disorders. For this purpose, we provided both a conceptual and empirical comparison of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5 models, adopting the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits—a comprehensive model of personality structure built on the basis of the higher-order factors of the Big Five—as a reference framework. Two studies were conducted: the first on a sample of 242 adults (52.9% female; Mage = 30.63, SDage = 11.82 years), and the second on a sample of 355 adults (50.1% female; Mage = 29.97, SDage = 12.26 years) from the non-clinical population. The Personality Inventory for ICD-11 (PiCD), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5), and the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits Questionnaire–Short Form (CPM-Q-SF) were administered in both studies, together with the PID-5BF+M algorithm for measuring a common (ICD-11 + DSM-5) six-domain model. Obtained empirical findings generally support our conceptual considerations that the ICD-11 model more comprehensively covered the area of personality pathology than the DSM-5 model, with Anankastia revealed as a more specific domain of personality disorders as well as more cohesively located within the overall personality structure, in comparison to Psychoticism. Moreover, the results corroborated the bipolar relations of Anankastia vs. Disinhibition domains. These results also correspond with the pattern of relationships found in reference to the Big Five domains of normal personality, which were also included in the current research. All our findings were discussed in the context of suggestions for the content and conceptualization of pathological personality traits that flow from the CPM as a comprehensive model of personality structure including both pathological and normal poles of personality dimensions.

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Intrapair Difference in Personality Traits, and Emotional and Social Adjustment in Monozygotic Twins

Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae ◽

10.1017/s0001566000010199 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 55-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Svenn Torgersen

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Social Adjustment ◽

Personality Development ◽

Monozygotic Twins ◽

Emotional Disturbances ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Normal Personality ◽

The Relationship

During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the advantages that MZ twin pairs offer for studying the effect of environmental factors on the development of emotional disturbances. Much of this research has been aimed at investigating the relationship between childhood differences and later discordance with regard to schizophrenia in MZ twin pairs. A few studies have used similar methodology to investigate the development of neurotic reactions. There has been very little work dealing with the causes of discordance in the normal personality development of MZ twin pairs. The paper presents some of the results from a larger twin project which show the relationship between childhood differences and differences in adulthood. The study examined differences in oral, obsessive, and hysterical personality traits, as well as differences in phobic fears, general neurotic symptomatology, occupational and marriage adjustment in 50 relatively unselected MZ twin pairs. The results show that many of the same childhood differences which have been reported to be associated with the discordance found in regard to schizophrenia and neuroses, are also related to differences in personality structure, emotional and social adjustment in less disturbed MZ twin pairs. Other childhood differences, however, seem to be more specifically related either to neurotic or to normal personality development, pointing to the importance of studying the relationship between specific intrapair differences in childhood and differences in various areas of later personality development.

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