PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter personality disorder: Magical Thinking, Attention Seeking, Clairvoyance
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Do not come and go but originate in childhood and continue throughout adulthood. A personality disorder is a persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviour that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships. Individuals with personality disorders may not feel any subjective distress, but may in fact be acutely felt by others because of the actions of the person with the disorder. Many people who have personality disorders in addition to other psychological problems tend to do poorly in treatment: categorical and dimensional models. One of the more widely accepted models is called the big five or the five-factor model of personality, and it is taken from work on normal personality: Extraversion: talkative, assertive, and active versus silent, passive, and reserved. Agreeableness: kind, trusting, and warm versus hostile, selfish, and mistrustful. Conscientiousness: organized, thorough, and reliable versus careless, negligent, and unreliable.