PSYC 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Big Five Personality Traits, Agreeableness, Psychodynamics
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Clinical features of personality disorders chronic interpersonal difficulties + problems with identity of self long enduring inflexible pattern of behaviour + clinically significant distress. Do not stem from reactions to stress, may set the stage, but not cause. Gradual development of inflexible and distorted personality result in maladaptive way of perceiving, thinking, and relating to the world. Prevalence hard to get because of problematic diagnostic criteria. 5. 6% in a, 1. 5% in b, 6% in c. But probably 10% anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance use problems, sexual deviations. Difficulties in diagnosing hard to follow and not clean cut; inferred traits or consistent pattern of behaviour, not objective behavioural standards (panic attack) Five-factor model five basic personality traits and sub-traits of them. Different score patterns on different sub-traits can correspond to pathological. Negative affectivity (neuroticism), detachment (extreme introversion), antagonism extremes (extremely low agreeableness), disinhibition (extremely low conscientiousness) Infant temperament are possible predictors cannot isolate causes unreliable.
