Dimensions of personality disorder and their relationships to the Big Five dimensions of personality.

Schroeder, Marsha L., Wormworth, Janice A., Livesley, W. John·1992·Psychological Assessment

Abstract

Researchers have suggested that personality disorders (PDs) could be better understood with a dimensional model than with the DSM-IIII-R categorical system. The authors conceptualized PDs as extreme expressions of personality functioning. Dimensional measures of aspects of PD were developed for the present study on the basis of previous factor-analytic investigations. The authors examined the convergence of these measures with Costa and McCrae's «Big Five» factors in a sample of 300 general-population subjects

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