Structures of Personality and Their Relevance to Psychopathology

II. Further Articulation of a Comprehensive Unified Trait Structure

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19280552
AutoresDavid Watson (0000-0002-2749-6136, University of Iowa, autor correspondente), Lesley A Clark (0000-0002-2571-4347, University of Iowa), Lee Anna Clark, Michael Chmielewski, Michael S Chmielewski (0000-0001-8126-8786, University of Iowa)
Ano2008
Volume76
Fascículo6
Páginas1545-1586
Data de publicação2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00531.x
PMID19012658
OpenAlexW1898515047
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33
Referências citadas60

There is increasing agreement that the current categorical system of personality disorders (PDs) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition ( DSM‐IV ; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) should be replaced by a trait dimensional scheme in DSM‐V . In particular, the consensus appears to be converging on a hierarchical Big Four model. The broad factors that form the apex of this hierarchy are essentially maladaptive variants of the Big Five traits of normal personality, minus Openness. We argue that this Big Four model is incomplete, however, in that it fails to model characteristics related to the “odd or eccentric” Cluster A PDs adequately. We report the results of three studies that examine these odd, eccentric characteristics in relation to basic dimensions of normal and abnormal personality. The results of these studies establish the existence of an Oddity factor that is (a) broader than the Cluster A traits and (b) distinct from Openness and the other Big Five dimensions. Consequently, its addition yields an alternative five‐factor model of personality pathology (considering only abnormal traits) and an expanded, integrated Big Six taxonomy that subsumes both normal and abnormal personality characteristics

Agreeableness · Alternative five model of personality · Big Five personality traits · Big Five personality traits and culture · Categorical variable · DSM-5 · Extraversion and introversion · Openness to experience · Personality · Personality disorders · Personality pathology · Psychopathology · Statistics · Trait · Trait theory · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology