scholarly journals The Construct Validity of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

Psychiatry ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Hopwood ◽  
Leslie C. Morey ◽  
John C. Markowitz ◽  
Anthony Pinto ◽  
Andrew E. Skodol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Aggressive Personality

Personality Disorders as Collections of Traits

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-70
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
General Model ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Empirical Relations ◽  
Expert Ratings

This chapter argues that personality disorders can and should be understood as collections of basic personality traits from a general model of personality, namely the five-factor model (FFM). It reviews evidence for the convergence of FFM personality disorder profiles across multiple approaches—expert ratings (i.e., researchers and clinicians) and empirical relations. It discusses how to score the personality disorders from the FFM and provides evidence for the convergent, discriminant, and construct validity of this approach. The chapter also demonstrates how the new alternative model for personality disorders can be embedded within the more established and robust FFM literature.

The Relationship Between Grandiosity, Psychopathy, and Narcissism in an Offender Sample

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 2687-2708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen M. Klipfel ◽  
David S. Kosson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Clinical Interviews ◽  
Unique Variance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Incarcerated Males

Clinical accounts suggest grandiosity is an important characteristic of both psychopathy and narcissism. This study examined the relationships between grandiosity and each of these personality disorder syndromes, using a novel index, namely the Grandiosity Index. Seventy-five incarcerated males completed clinical interviews of psychopathy and narcissism and a self-report inventory of narcissism and were rated on interpersonal measures of psychopathy and narcissism. Trained research assistants rated participants on the Grandiosity Index. Analyses provided preliminary evidence of construct validity for the index. Scores on the Grandiosity Index were significantly correlated with scores on both clinical and interpersonal measures of psychopathy and narcissism and with self-reported narcissism. Regressions demonstrated that the Grandiosity Index explained substantial unique variance in psychopathy after controlling for scores on narcissism. This study demonstrates that grandiose features are associated uniquely with clinical ratings of psychopathy, though not significantly more with psychopathy than with narcissism.

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