FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Defining personality disorders
- unusual
- problematic
- impact social relations
- stable over time
- ego-syntonic (view it as who they are as a person)
- any trait taken to the extreme can be pathological
6 personality disorders
- schizotypal
- narcissistic
- antisocial
- borderline
- avoidant
- obsessive-compulsive
schizotypal
- people are unconventional
- hard to relate to others
- men
- quirky, odd, eccentric, 0.5-3.5%
narcissistic
- inflated self-esteem, expect praise
- exploitive, sensitive to criticism, ego-syntonic
- 0-6.2%
antisocial
- dishonest, lie, cheat, impulsive
- men
- heartless, psychopathy, addiction
- 0.2-3.3%
borderline
- different day to day, self harm
- women
- chaotic, instability
-2%
avoidant
- feels inadequate
- expect the worse
- 2.4%
obsessive compulsive
- order, structure
- rituals, hard workers, ego-syntonic
- 2.1-7.9%
DSM vs ICD-11 creators
DSM: American psychology association
ICD-11: WHO
Bad 5 (DSM)
- negative affectivity
- detatchment
- antagonism
- disinhibition
- psychoticsm
Bad 5 (ICD-11)
- negative affectivity
- detatchment
- dissociality
- dishinibition
- anakastia
DSM diagnosis
- asses clients personality functioning
- asses if at least 1 of 6 disorders is present
- asses each of 5 maladaptive traits
ICD diagnosis
- asses degree of disfunction
- can be qualified by description of domain traits
diagnosis
labelling: somewhat misleading but useful
ways of testing stability vs change
research design:
- cross sectional: compare different age groups (dis: cohort differences)
- longitudinal: measures same individuals over time
analytical approach:
- mean level: time1 - time2 = mean level
- >0 increase
- =0 stable
- <0 decreased
maturity principle
people mature in predictable ways
big 5 maturity
- extraversion: increase until middle age, then stabilize
- neg emotionality: decrease until middle age, then stabilize
- agreeableness + conscientiousness: steadily increase across lifespan
- openness: initial increase, stability, later decrease
rank order
rank order of people over time
- correlation (r): r>0 more stability r<0 more change
- big 5: increasing stability
continuity vs plasticity principle
C: personality is increasingly stable
P: you can always change but it gets hard
drivers of personality change + stability
- enviornmental: have kids, find partners, social investment principle (change in role change personality)
- biological: brain development and decline (prozac)
- transactional: active: choose their environments
–>reactive: experience environment differently
–> evocative: change their enviornments
can we change our personality
- have to want to
- have to think its possible
self regulated behavioural change
eventually behaviour becomes habitual, trait change