“…The present research aims to study the relationship between personality structure, affect structure and coping style in a group of people diagnosed with severe PD in whom personality and affect show their most psychopathological aspect. As personality structure, the model that emerged psychometrically in previous research (Ramos, Broco, Sánchez & Doll, 2020) is chosen, which allows an exhaustive and exclusive classification of the entire sample and that corresponds to a high level of "super factors" in the taxometric hierarchy (Kotov et al, 2017;Widiger et al, 2019): internalization and externalization. The internalizing type is characterized by schizoid, phobic-inviting, schizotypal, and dependent traits; the externalizing group exhibits narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial, and aggressive-sadistic traits.…”