PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dependent Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder, Tunxis Community College
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Patterns of anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and social hypersensitivity. Often avoid jobs that require interpersonal contact. Difficulty making everyday decisions; needs others to assume responsibility; Give their lives over to others leads to submissiveness, clinging behavior, and fears of separation. Do a lot in order to keep someone from leaving them. Self doubt, low self-esteem; don"t often express disagreement. Characterized by perfectionism, excessive dedication to work, and inflexibility. Pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control. Do not generally have obsession or compulsions. Her mom cant go to the movies until all the dishes were done but jessica loves movie trailers. These individuals often don"t think they have a problem. Researchers estimate that anxious/fearful personality disorders in 2. 3% of population. Behavioral inhibition, tendency to anticipate harm, excessive sensitivity to negative events, heightened arousal. May result when an anxious, introverted, and unconfident person experiences repeated episodes or embarrassment, rejection, or humiliation in childhood. May result from an interaction between an anxious/fearful.