Rigid and extreme: A geometric representation of personality disorders in five-factor model space.

O’Connor, Brian P.; Dyce, Jamie A.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.81.6.1119

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“…The same five dimensions (neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) are assumed to underlie both normal and abnormal personality characteristics (Digman, 1990;John & Srivastava, 1999;McCrae & John, 1992;Wiggins, 1996). Abnormal personalities are viewed as maladaptively extreme variants of the five basic factors of personality, and personality disorders can be understood in terms of their relative position on the five primary dimensions O'Connor & Dyce, 2001;Widiger, 1993Widiger, , 2000Widiger, Trull, Clarkin, Sanderson, & Costa, 1994).…”

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A search for consensus on the dimensional structure of personality disorders

2005

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Previous attempts to elucidate the dimensional structure of personality disorders (PDs) have been based on single samples and measures. Like one-item tests, they are useful but scattered and potentially misleading glimpses at the true structure of PDs. Therefore, reanalyses of 33 previously published data sets were conducted using recommended statistical procedures to arrive at consensus structures. Similar reanalyses of published data were conducted on associations between PDs and the five-factor model of normal personality characteristics. High degrees of congruence were observed between the consensus PD structures and the consensus structures suggested by dimensions of normal personality. The analytic techniques used in the present study helped bypass methodological problems inherent in previous tests and revealed higher levels of support for both theoretically and empirically based representations of the five-factor model approach to PDs.

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“…Several studies have attempted to locate abnormal personality traits within the FFM factor space (see O'Connor & Dyce, 2001). While the FFM has been shown to exhibit correlations with Axis II clinical constructs (e.g., Widiger et al, 2002), in practice, such correlations are typically observed even between quite unrelated psychometric measures, and are of little psychological importance, being attributable largely to overlapping media of measurement variance (e.g., intercorrelations between unrelated self-report scales)..…”

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Critique of the Five-Factor Model of Personality

Boyle

2008

The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Volume 1 — Personality Theories and Models

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“…A variety of studies have indicated, for example, that personality structure is essentially the same in clinical and nonclinical samples (O'Connor, 2002), that normal and abnormal personality are strongly related at the etiologic level (Jang & Livesley, 1999;Markon, Krueger, Bouchard, & Gottesman, 2002), and that abnormal personality can be modeled as extremes of normal personality variation (O'Connor & Dyce, 2001).…”

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Delineating the Structure of Normal and Abnormal Personality: An Integrative Hierarchical Approach.

Markon

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Watson

2005

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Increasing evidence indicates that normal and abnormal personality can be treated within a single structural framework. However, identification of a single integrated structure of normal and abnormal personality has remained elusive. Here, a constructive replication approach was used to delineate an integrative hierarchical account of the structure of normal and abnormal personality. This hierarchical structure, which integrates many Big Trait models proposed in the literature, replicated across a metaanalysis as well as an empirical study, and across samples of participants as well as measures. The proposed structure resembles previously suggested accounts of personality hierarchy and provides insight into the nature of personality hierarchy more generally. Potential directions for future research on personality and psychopathology are discussed.In recent years, there has been increasing consensus that normal and abnormal personality variation can be treated within a single, unified structural framework (Eysenck, 1994;O'Connor, 2002;. A variety of studies have indicated, for example, that personality structure is essentially the same in clinical and nonclinical samples (O'Connor, 2002), that normal and abnormal personality are strongly related at the etiologic level (Jang & Livesley, 1999;Markon, Krueger, Bouchard, & Gottesman, 2002), and that abnormal personality can be modeled as extremes of normal personality variation (O'Connor & Dyce, 2001).Despite consensus about the possibility of describing normal and abnormal personality within a single structural framework, however, there is less consensus about what this structural framework might be. Although there is emerging consensus about the superordinate structure of normal personality (Goldberg, 1993), less consensus exists about a similar structure of abnormal personality (Livesley, 2001). Delineating a unified superordinate structure across normal and abnormal domains of personality has been even more challenging. Empirical results have supported a variety of conclusions, and validity has been demonstrated for multiple structural models (e.g., Jang & Livesley, 1999;Markon et al., 2002;O'Connor, 2002).Here, we argue that abnormal and normal personality variation is best described within a single integrative hierarchy. We demonstrate that this hierarchical structure replicates across a metaanalytic dataset and empirical sample, replicates across different sets of measures, and is consistent with previous integrative analyses of superordinate personality structure.Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kristian E. Markon Structural Models of Abnormal PersonalityMany models of personality structure, including those of Eysenck (1947;Eysenck & Eysenck, 1976) and Cloninger (1987;Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, 1993), were formulated with an explicit goal of describing both normal and abnormal trait variation. Other prominent models, such as the Big Five, were developed without explicit attention to any distinction between normal and...

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Rigid and extreme: A geometric representation of personality disorders in five-factor model space.

Cited by 76 publications

References 34 publications

A search for consensus on the dimensional structure of personality disorders

A search for consensus on the dimensional structure of personality disorders

Critique of the Five-Factor Model of Personality

Delineating the Structure of Normal and Abnormal Personality: An Integrative Hierarchical Approach.

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