General and Maladaptive Personality Dimensions in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms

Autor/inn/en	Aelterman, Nathalie; De Clercq, Barbara; De Bolle, Marleen; De Fruyt, Filip
Titel	General and Maladaptive Personality Dimensions in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 42 (2011) 1, S.24-41 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-010-0199-9
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Personality Traits; Validity; Child Behavior; Personality Problems; Adolescents; Behavior Disorders; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Measures (Individuals); Classification; Referral; Children; Pathology; Personality Measures; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Gültigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Messdaten; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pathologie
Abstract	Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and impairing clinical disorder in childhood, often characterized by a heterogeneous symptomatic profile and high co-occurrence with other disorders. The present study introduces a new perspective on the description of OCD symptoms in youth, and empirically examines the value of a personality framework (e.g. Five Factor of Personality; FFM) for understanding early OCD symptomatology in a referred sample of 274 children and adolescents, relying on age-specific measures of general and maladaptive personality. Differences in general and maladaptive personality traits for high versus low-scoring children and adolescents on the Obsessive-Compulsive Scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL-OCS) were explored. The discriminant validity of both higher-and lower-order personality traits was supported, showing that high CBCL-OCS scorers are characterized by specific personality features ranging from adaptive to pathological, especially in terms of Conscientiousness. In addition, personality traits contributed to the accurate classification of high- versus low-scorers on the CBCL-OCS. Implications for clinical practice and recommendations for future research are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10