Conceptualizations of Personality Disorders with the Five Factor Model-Count and Empathy Traits

Autor/inn/en	Kajonius, Petri J.; Dåderman, Anna M.
Titel	Conceptualizations of Personality Disorders with the Five Factor Model-Count and Empathy Traits
Quelle	In: International Journal of Testing, 17 (2017) 2, S.141-157 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1530-5058
DOI	10.1080/15305058.2017.1279164
Schlagwörter	Personality Problems; Empathy; Personality Traits; Scores; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Measurement; Personality Measures; Statistical Analysis; Sweden; Interpersonal Reactivity Index; NEO Five Factor Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empathie; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Korrelation; Messverfahren; Statistische Analyse; Schweden
Abstract	Previous research has long advocated that emotional and behavioral disorders are related to general personality traits, such as the Five Factor Model (FFM). The addition of section III in the latest "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) recommends that extremity in personality traits together with maladaptive interpersonal functioning, such as lack of empathy, are used for identifying psychopathology and particularly personality disorders (PD). The objective of the present study was to measure dispositions for DSM categories based on normal personality continuums, and to conceptualize these with empathy traits. We used a validated FFM-count method based on the five personality factors (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness), and related these to 4 empathy traits (emphatic concern, perspective-taking, fantasy, and personal distress). The results showed that FFM-based PD scores overall could be conceptualized using only two of the empathy traits, low emphatic concern and high personal distress. Further, specific dispositions for personality disorders were characterized with distinct empathy traits (e.g., histrionic with high fantasy, and paranoid with low perspective-taking). These findings may have both theoretical and practical implications in capturing potential for personality disorders with ease and efficiency. (As Provided).
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