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Meta-Analysis
. 2008 Dec;28(8):1326-42.
doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2008.07.002. Epub 2008 Jul 4.

A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders: a facet level analysis

Douglas B Samuel  1 , Thomas A Widiger
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Meta-Analysis

A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders: a facet level analysis

Douglas B Samuel et al. Clin Psychol Rev. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

Theory and research have suggested that the personality disorders contained within the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) can be understood as maladaptive variants of the personality traits included within the five-factor model (FFM). The current meta-analysis of FFM personality disorder research both replicated and extended the 2004 work of Saulsman and Page (The five-factor model and personality disorder empirical literature: A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 1055-1085) through a facet level analysis that provides a more specific and nuanced description of each DSM-IV-TR personality disorder. The empirical FFM profiles generated for each personality disorder were generally congruent at the facet level with hypothesized FFM translations of the DSM-IV-TR personality disorders. However, notable exceptions to the hypotheses did occur and even some findings that were consistent with FFM theory could be said to be instrument specific.

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