Thomas A Widiger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1660744 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas A Widiger |
| NOMBRES | Thomas A |
| APELLIDO | Widiger |
| FIRMA | WIDIGER T A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1127-3234 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Parent Grandiose Narcissism and Child Socio-Emotional Well Being
Previous research has highlighted how parent narcissism relates to parenting broadly. However, research has not examined how facets of grandiose narcissism are associated with parenting tactics, nor how these facets may indirectly affect child development. The current study assesses parenting tactics as intervening variables in associations between facets of grandiose narcissism and child internalizing/externalizing. Participants were 457 parents…
The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirically and quantitatively derived dimensional classification system designed to describe the features of psychopathology and, ultimately, to replace categorical nosologies. Among the constructs that HiTOP organizes are “symptom components” and “maladaptive traits,” but past HiTOP publications have not fully explicated the distinction between symptoms and traits. We propose working de…
Parental Problem Drinking and Maladaptive Personality Features in Children
The vibrant intersection of personality and psychopathology research
A conceptual dismantling of the Five Factor Form
HiTOP thought disorder, DSM-5 psychoticism, and five factor model openness
Ratings of affective and interpersonal tendencies differ for grandiose and vulnerable narcissism
OBJECTIVE: Theoretical conceptions of narcissism have long been characterized by two seemingly opposing poles: grandiosity and vulnerability. The goal of the current study was to investigate the extent to which traits associated with one profile are perceived to co-occur with the other within an individual. METHOD: = 37) recruited from Amazon's MTurk were assigned to one of four conditions in which they rated how often a series of narcissistic tr…
Maladaptive variants of adaptive traits and bloated specific factors
Neuroticism is a fundamental domain of personality with enormous public health implications
Neuroticism is the trait disposition to experience negative affects, including anger, anxiety, self-consciousness, irritability, emotional instability, and depression1. Persons with elevated levels of neuroticism respond poorly to environmental stress, interpret ordinary situations as threatening, and can experience minor frustrations as hopelessly overwhelming. Neuroticism is one of the more well established and empirically validated personality…
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
Thinking Structurally About Narcissism
The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI) is a self-report measure of the traits linked to grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, as well as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), from a five-factor model perspective (FFM). In the current studies, the factor structure of the FFNI was explored and the results supported the extraction of three factors: Antagonism (e.g., Arrogance), Neuroticism (e.g., Need for Admiration), and Agentic Extraversion…
Development and validation of the super-short form of the Elemental Psychopathy Assessment
Five Factor Model of Personality, Personality Disorder
Testing whether the DSM-5 personality disorder trait model can be measured with a reduced set of items
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) includes an alternative model of personality disorders (PDs) in Section III, consisting in part of a pathological personality trait model. To date, the 220-item Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5; Krueger, Derringer, Markon, Watson, & Skodol, 2012) is the only extant self-report instrument explicitly developed to measure this pathological trait model. The p…
Development of a Short Form of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory
The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI; Glover, Miller, Lynam, Crego, & Widiger, 2012) is a 148-item self-report inventory of 15 traits designed to assess the basic elements of narcissism from the perspective of a 5-factor model. The FFNI assesses both vulnerable (i.e., cynicism/distrust, need for admiration, reactive anger, and shame) and grandiose (i.e., acclaim seeking, arrogance, authoritativeness, entitlement, exhibitionism, exploitative…
Psychopathy and the DSM
Psychopathy is one of the more well‐established personality disorders. However, its relationship with the American Psychiatric A ssociation's D iagnostic and S tatistical M anual of M ental D isorders ( DSM ) has been controversial. The purpose of this article is to trace and discuss the history of this relationship from the very first edition of the DSM to the current fifth edition. Emphasized in particular is the problematic relationship of DSM…
Clinical Application of the F ive‐ F actor M odel
The F ive‐ F actor M odel ( FFM ) has become the predominant dimensional model of general personality structure. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a clinical application. A substantial body of research indicates that the personality disorders included within the A merican P sychiatric A ssociation's ( APA ) D iagnostic and S tatistical M anual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) can be understood as extreme and/or maladaptive variants of the FFM (t…
The development of personality extremity from childhood to adolescence
This study investigated the development of personality extremity (deviation of an average midpoint of all 5 personality dimensions together) across childhood and adolescence, as well as relations between personality extremity and adjustment problems. For 598 children (mean age at Time 1 = 7.5 years), mothers and fathers reported the Big Five personality dimensions 4 times across 8 years. Children's vector length in a 5-dimensional configuration o…
Diagnosis and Classification
This chapter provides a discussion of the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders. It begins with a consideration of the rationale for having an official, authoritative classification of mental disorder. It then traces the history of the development of an official mental disorder classification, from just prior to the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders (DSM), through eac…
Personality Disorders
In this chapter we discuss the diagnosis, etiology, and pathology of personality disorders. We begin with a general discussion of the definition, clinical importance, and assessment of personality disorders. We then discuss each of the 10 DSM-IV personality disorders (i.e., paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive), considering in particular their description,…
The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory
This study provides convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity data for a new measure of narcissistic personality traits created from the perspective of the Five-factor model (FFM) of general personality structure. Fifteen scales were constructed as maladaptive variants of respective facets of the FFM (e.g., Reactive Anger as a narcissistic variant of angry hostility), with item selection made on the basis of a criterion-keying approach u…
Integrating Normal and Abnormal Personality Structure
It is evident that the conceptualization, diagnosis, and classification of personality disorder ( PD ) is shifting toward a dimensional model. The purpose of this special issue of Journal of Personality is to indicate how the Five‐Factor Model ( FFM ) can provide a useful and meaningful basis for an integration of the description and classification of both normal and abnormal personality functioning. This introductory article discusses its empiri…
The Oxford handbook of personality disorders
This text provides a summary of the latest information concerning the diagnosis, assessment, construct validity etiology, pathology, and treatment of personality disorders.
Assessing the basic traits associated with psychopathy
A new self-report assessment of the basic traits of psychopathy was developed with a general trait model of personality (five-factor model [FFM]) as a framework. Scales were written to assess maladaptive variants of the 18 FFM traits that are robustly related to psychopathy across a variety of perspectives including empirical correlations, expert ratings, and translations of extant assessments. Across 3 independent undergraduate samples (N = 210-…
The search for the successful psychopath
Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder
The diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were developed in the spirit of a traditional medical model that considers mental disorders to be qualitatively distinct conditions (see, e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Work is now beginning on the fifth edition of this influential diagnostic manual. It is perhaps time to consider a fundamental shift in how psy…
Broverman et al. revisited
Gender differences in the diagnosis of mental disorders
One of the more controversial issues in terms of mental disorder diagnoses has been their differential sex prevalence. The conclusions provided in the 4th edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were derived from systematic reviews of the research literature. However, this research is perhaps complicated by common sources of error. Two sources, in particular, are emphasized he…
Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) developed by the American Psychiatric Association (1994) is a compelling effort at a best approximation to date of a scientifically based nomenclature, but even its authors have acknowledged that its diagnoses and criterion sets are highly debatable. Well-meaning clinicians, theorists, and researchers could find some basis for fault in virtually every sentence, due in part to the …
Convergent and discriminant validity of measures of cognitive styles and abilities
The search for the successful psychopath
Development and validation of the super-short form of the Elemental Psychopathy Assessment
The vibrant intersection of personality and psychopathology research
A conceptual dismantling of the Five Factor Form
HiTOP thought disorder, DSM-5 psychoticism, and five factor model openness
The development of personality extremity from childhood to adolescence
This study investigated the development of personality extremity (deviation of an average midpoint of all 5 personality dimensions together) across childhood and adolescence, as well as relations between personality extremity and adjustment problems. For 598 children (mean age at Time 1 = 7.5 years), mothers and fathers reported the Big Five personality dimensions 4 times across 8 years. Children's vector length in a 5-dimensional configuration o…
Personality, psychopathology, and aging
Gender bias in the English language
A biased representation of the desirability of the masculine and feminine trait terms included within a questionnaire can compel test respondents to characterize males and females in a comparably biased manner. The current study assessed whether the English language might itself contain more male-valued or female-valued terms. Ratings of desirability, masculinity, and femininity were obtained on a representative sample of 1,710 trait terms. The r…
Interpersonal complementarity and individual differences
Interpersonal circumplex theory has predicted complementarity in interpersonal interactions to be expressed in the form of correspondence along the affiliation dimension (e.g., friendly behavior evokes friendliness) and reciprocity along the control dimension (e.g., dominance evokes submission). Prior research has supported the first prediction but not the second. It was hypothesized in this study that the inconsistent findings were due in part t…
Convergent and discriminant validity of measures of cognitive styles and abilities
The responsible psychotherapist
Kaplan's view of DSM-III
The responsible psychotherapist
Kaplan's view of DSM-III
The empty debate over the existence of mental illness
The empty debate over the existence of mental illness
Broverman et al. revisited
Comparing Idiothetic, Ipsative, and Normative Indices of Consistency
Lamiell's (1981) “idiothetic” index has been praised for raising significant conceptual and methodological issues, but Paunonen and Jackson (1986a) indicated that it might not provide any unique information The current study demonstrates that the unique value of the idiothetic index relative to the ipsative, normative, and normative‐ipsative indices is dependent in part upon what information is collected and how it is analyzed Subjects completed …
Interpersonal complementarity and individual differences
Interpersonal circumplex theory has predicted complementarity in interpersonal interactions to be expressed in the form of correspondence along the affiliation dimension (e.g., friendly behavior evokes friendliness) and reciprocity along the control dimension (e.g., dominance evokes submission). Prior research has supported the first prediction but not the second. It was hypothesized in this study that the inconsistent findings were due in part t…
Personality and Psychopathology
Our review is concerned with the relationship of the five‐factor model of personality to psychopathology, focusing in particular on Axis II personality disorders and depression. The five factors provide a particularly compelling model for interpreting the Axis II personality disorders as maladaptive variants of normal personality traits. However, we also discuss methodological and conceptual limitations of this application. There has been little …
Gender differences in the diagnosis of mental disorders
Gender differences in the diagnosis of mental disorders
One of the more controversial issues in terms of mental disorder diagnoses has been their differential sex prevalence. The conclusions provided in the 4th edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were derived from systematic reviews of the research literature. However, this research is perhaps complicated by common sources of error. Two sources, in particular, are emphasized he…
Consensus criteria for traumatic grief
BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that symptoms of traumatic grief constitute a distinct syndrome worthy of diagnosis. AIMS: A consensus conference aimed to develop and test a criteria set for traumatic grief. METHOD: The expert panel proposed consensus criteria for traumatic grief. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analyses tested the performance of the proposed criteria on 306 widowed respondents at seven months post loss. RESULTS: ROC analyses …
Gender bias in the English language
A biased representation of the desirability of the masculine and feminine trait terms included within a questionnaire can compel test respondents to characterize males and females in a comparably biased manner. The current study assessed whether the English language might itself contain more male-valued or female-valued terms. Ratings of desirability, masculinity, and femininity were obtained on a representative sample of 1,710 trait terms. The r…
Toward DSM--V and the classification of psychopathology
Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) developed by the American Psychiatric Association (1994) is a compelling effort at a best approximation to date of a scientifically based nomenclature, but even its authors have acknowledged that its diagnoses and criterion sets are highly debatable. Well-meaning clinicians, theorists, and researchers could find some basis for fault in virtually every sentence, due in part to the …
Using the five-factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders
This study sought to extend previous work on the five-factor dimensional model (FFM) of personality disorder (PD) by developing more comprehensive FFM descriptions of prototypic cases. Specifically, the authors asked experts in each of the 10 DSM-IV PDs to rate the prototypic case by using all 30 facets of the FFM. Aggregating across raters of the given disorder generated a prototype for each disorder. In general, there was good agreement among e…
A Structured Interview for the Assessment of the Five‐Factor Model of Personality
The Structured Interview for the Five‐Factor Model (SIFFM; Trull & Widiger, 1997) is an 120‐item semistructured interview that assesses both adaptive and maladaptive features of the personality traits included in the five‐factor model of personality, or “Big Five.” In this article, we evaluate the ability of SIFFM scores to predict personality disorder symptomatology in a sample of 232 adults (46 outpatients and 186 nonclinical college students).…
Personality Disorders as Extreme Variants of Common Personality Dimensions
The present study examined Widiger and Lynam’s (1998) hypothesis that psychopathy can be represented using the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality. Participants in the study consisted of 481 21–22 year old men and women who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study. Psychopathy was assessed by the degree of similarity between an individual’s NEO‐PI‐R and an expert‐generated FFM psychopathy prototype. The expert‐based prototype supported the ac…
Personality, psychopathology, and aging
Five factor model of personality disorder
Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder
The diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were developed in the spirit of a traditional medical model that considers mental disorders to be qualitatively distinct conditions (see, e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Work is now beginning on the fifth edition of this influential diagnostic manual. It is perhaps time to consider a fundamental shift in how psy…
A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders
Further comments toward a dimensional classification of personality disorder
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