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Temperament and the structure of personality disorder symptoms

MULDER, ROGER T., JOYCE, PETER R.·1997·Psychological Medicine
DOI 10.1017/s0033291796004114
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This paper attempts to construct a simplified system for the classification of personality disorders, and relates this system to normally distributed human personality characteristics. One hundred and forty-eight subjects with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses were evaluated using the SCID-II structured clinical interview for personality disorders. A four-factor solution of personality disorder symptoms was obtained and we labelled these factors ‘the four As’ : antisocial, asocial, asthenic and anankastic. The factors related to the four temperament dimensions of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), but less closely to Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) dimensions. The four factors were similar to those identified in a number of studies using a variety of assessment methods and this lends some credibility to our findings. It suggests that a more parsimonious set of trait descriptors could be used to provide simpler, less overlapping categories that retain links with current clinical practice. In addition, these factors can be seen as extremes of normally distributed behaviours obtained using the TPQ questionnaire.

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  • There is surprising consistency in the number and descriptions of the main dimensions of personality disorder in studies of psychiatric patients and normal populations.

    “There is surprising consistency over the number and de scriptions of the main dimensions of personality disorder in studies carried out with both psychiatric patients and nor mal populations”

    From Personality disorder: a new global perspective (2010) · cites this paper as [45]

  • Three or four dimensions are uniformly reported, in addition to the five-factor model.

    “Three or four dimensions are uniformly reported (43)(44)(45)(46), in addition to the well-known five-factor model”

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Authors
MULDER, R. T., & JOYCE, P. R.
ORCID
MULDER, ROGER T.
Venue
Psychological Medicine
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1997-01
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
99-106
ISSN
  • 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8978
DOI
10.1017/s0033291796004114
OpenAlex
W2094714785
Cited by
138
References
15
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
FWCI
5.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
  • Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
personality disorders, temperament, personality disorder classification, Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, antisocial personality traits, personality traits, SCID-II
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Disorders, Personality Tests, Temperament

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