Stability and change in personality and personality disorders

Hopwood, Christopher J.; Bleidorn, Wiebke

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.034

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“…The dynamics of PDs can be examined at different time scales, nomothetically or idiographically, and across or within situations (Hopwood, 2018; Hopwood, Zimmermann, Pincus, & Krueger, 2015; Ringwald, Woods, et al, 2020). First, the long‐term development of PDs, for example, the stability of pathological traits and symptoms, is of theoretical and practical relevance (e.g., Hopwood et al, 2013; see also Hopwood & Bleidorn, 2018 for a review). Second, some PDs can be defined by dysfunctional patterns of within‐person variability across situations.…”

Section: Personality Dynamics In Applied Settingsmentioning

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The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field

Kuper

Modersitzki

Phan

et al. 2021

British J of Psychology

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Personality psychology has long focused on structural trait models, but it can also offer a rich understanding of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of individual differences or entire persons. The field of personality dynamics, which works towards such an understanding, has experienced a renaissance in the last two decades. This review article seeks to act as a primer of that field. It covers its historical roots, summarizes current research strands – along with their theoretical backbones and methodologies – in an accessible way, and sketches some considerations for the future. In doing so, we introduce relevant concepts, give an overview of different topics and phenomena subsumed under the broad umbrella term ‘dynamics’, and highlight the interdisciplinarity as well as applied relevance of the field. We hope this article can serve as a useful overview for scholars within and outside of personality psychology who are interested in the dynamic nature of human behaviour and experience.

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Section: Personality Dynamics In Applied Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field

Kuper

Modersitzki

Phan

et al. 2021

British J of Psychology

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“…Although PDs (and pathological traits as described in the AMPD) have demonstrated long-term stability across individuals (i.e. rank order, mean-level change) (Morey and Hopwood, 2013; Wright et al ., 2015 b ; Hopwood and Bleidorn, 2018), expressions of PDs and pathological traits exhibit short-term fluctuation within individuals (Wright et al ., 2015 a ; Wright and Simms, 2016). Indeed, the person-specific, dynamic nature of PDs is key to treatment, as clinicians seek to understand the mechanisms of symptom expression to determine when and how to interrupt these processes for a unique individual (Wright and Hopwood, 2016).…”

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Personalized models of personality disorders: using a temporal network method to understand symptomatology and daily functioning in a clinical sample

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BackgroundAn ongoing challenge in understanding and treating personality disorders (PDs) is a significant heterogeneity in disorder expression, stemming from variability in underlying dynamic processes. These processes are commonly discussed in clinical settings, but are rarely empirically studied due to their personalized, temporal nature. The goal of the current study was to combine intensive longitudinal data collection with person-specific temporal network models to produce individualized symptom-level structures of personality pathology. These structures were then linked to traditional PD diagnoses and stress (to index daily functioning).MethodsUsing about 100 daily assessments of internalizing and externalizing domains underlying PDs (i.e. negative affect, detachment, impulsivity, hostility), a temporal network mapping approach (i.e. group iterative multiple model estimation) was used to create person-specific networks of the temporal relations among domains for 91 individuals (62.6% female) with a PD. Network characteristics were then associated with traditional PD symptomatology (controlling for mean domain levels) and with daily variation in clinically-relevant phenomena (i.e. stress).ResultsFeatures of the person-specific networks predicted paranoid, borderline, narcissistic, and obsessive-PD symptom counts above average levels of the domains, in ways that align with clinical conceptualizations. They also predicted between-person variation in stress across days.ConclusionsRelations among behavioral domains thought to underlie heterogeneity in PDs were indeed associated with traditional diagnostic constructs and with daily functioning (i.e. stress) in person-specific networks. Findings highlight the importance of leveraging data and models that capture person-specific, dynamic processes, and suggest that person-specific networks may have implications for precision medicine.

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“…The stability of basic personality traits over the life cycle, and their changes due to negative life events like cancer, has been under discussion [ 4 , 8 , 21 ]. We found no increased prevalence of neuroticism in OCSs compared to controls.…”

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“…Checking several databases, we have not found any more studies examining the impact of neuroticism on health problems among OCSs. However, recent studies have documented that basic personality traits can be modified by severe traumatic life events like rape, robbery, or cancer [ 4 , 21 ]. According to these findings, OCSs could be expected to have higher prevalence of high neuroticism than cancer-free controls.…”

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Is neuroticism relevant for old cancer survivors? A controlled, population-based study (the Norwegian HUNT-3 survey)

Grov

Dahl

2020

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Purpose Personality traits, particularly neuroticism, have an impact on people’s health and lifestyle. Due to lack of previous studies, we examined old cancer survivors (OCSs) versus cancer-free age-matched controls aged ≥ 70 years, regarding prevalence of high neuroticism, health problems in those with high and low neuroticism, and sociodemographic and clinical variables that were significantly associated with high neuroticism. Methods We merged data from a Norwegian population–based health study (the HUNT-3) and from the Cancer Registry of Norway identifying OCSs. Three cancer-free controls were drawn at random for each OCS. Neuroticism was self-rated on a brief version of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Between-group statistical comparisons were made between OCS and controls, and among their subgroups with high and low neuroticism. Logistic regression analyses were used to investigate independent variables significantly associated with high neuroticism. Results Twenty-nine percent of OCSs reported high neuroticism while controls reported 30%. OCSs showed significantly lower rate of good life satisfaction than controls. All other between-group comparisons were nonsignificant. Being OCSs was not significantly related to high neuroticism in the regression analyses. Sociodemographic, general health, and lifestyle issues, lack of energy, and low life satisfaction remained significantly associated with high neuroticism in the multivariable analysis. Conclusions The prevalence of high neuroticism was similar in OCSs and controls. High neuroticism was associated with negative health and lifestyle issues in both groups.

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Stability and change in personality and personality disorders

Cited by 32 publications

References 49 publications

The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field

The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field

Personalized models of personality disorders: using a temporal network method to understand symptomatology and daily functioning in a clinical sample

Is neuroticism relevant for old cancer survivors? A controlled, population-based study (the Norwegian HUNT-3 survey)

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