Five-factor model of personality disorders: Spanish normative data and validation

Abstract The categorical approach of personality disorders (PD) has given way to a dimensional paradigm. Within this, the Five-factor model (FFM) proposes theoretical hypotheses describing personality pathologies and PD empirical prototypes based on the DSM (DSM-PD). Moreover, a methodology to score DSM-PD using the NEO PI-R facets was developed. In this ex post-facto study FFM-PD count norms were developed using data from the NEO PI-R Spanish adaptation. Furthermore, the diagnostic agreement with the IPDE and validity of FFM-PD counts was analyzed in a clinical (n = 222) and non-clinical sample (n = 742). Based on NEO PI-R scores, we presented Spanish FFM-PD normative data. FFM-PD benchmarks were highly likely to be exceeded if subjects were classified as a subclinical case in the DSM-PD. Convergent correlations of FFM-PD counts with their equivalent subclinical cases of DSM-PD were statistically significant and outperformed any divergent correlation as well as the average divergent correlations in all FFM-PD. The use of a count technique based on NEO PI-R facets and Spanish FFM-PD normative data facilitate PD understanding and interpretation in various applied psychology fields.

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Main Authors: Colodro,Joaquín, López-García,Juan J., Mezquita,Laura, Colodro-Conde,Lucía, Ibáñez,Manuel I., Edo,Silvia, Villa,Elena, Ortet,Generós
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2018
Online Access:http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0212-97282018000200007
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