Personality Disorders Flashcards
What is personality?
- the characteristic way a person behaves
- pervasive = influences all aspects of our lives
What are the big 5
- openness
- contentiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neurotism
Describe - Neuroticism
- opposite = emotional stability
- anxious vs unconcerned
- angry/hostile vs dispassionate
- self-conscious vs shameless
- impulsive vs restrained
- vulnerability vs fearless
Describe - Extraversion
- opposite = introversion
- warm vs cold
- gregarious vs withdrawal
- assertiveness vs submissiveness
- activity vs passivity
- excitement seeking vs dullness
Describe - openness
- opposite = closedness
- fantasy vs concrete
- feelings vs alexithymia (when people have difficulty expressing emotions)
- actions vs routine
- ideas vs closed-minded
- values vs dogmatic
Describe agreeableness
- opposite = antagonism
- trust vs mistrust
- straightforward vs deception
- altruism vs exploitation
- compliance vs opposition/aggression
- modesty vs arrogance
- tender-minded vs tough-minded
Describe - Conscientiousness
- opposite = disinhibition
- competence vs ineptitude
- order vs disordered
- dutifulness vs irresponsibility
- achievement striving vs lackadaisical
- self-discipline vs negligence
- deliberation vs rashness
What is a personality disorder>
- the characteristic way a person behaves and thinks that causes significant distress to themselves and/or others
- DSM = inflexible and maladaptive, and cause significant impairment or subjective distress
- chronic and pervasive
Describe - Paranoid personality disorder
- occupation : unable to hold job
- poor relationships: unable to trust people, no long-term relationships/friendships
- lifestyle: unstable, frequently moving bc believes neighbors are out to get them
Describe PD - degree vs kind
degree - symptoms are extreme versions of otherwise “normal” traits
kind - PD a type of personality disorder that is “different” from psychologically healthy behavior
Name some controversy’s with PD
- Multiple problems with current system:
- high comorbidity
- low validity of diagnosis
- high overlap in etiologies
- bad reliability, will 2 clinicians diagnose the same thing - Revision: goal to create dimensions of different personality traits along the lines of the “Big 5”
- not included in the DSM5 to to difficulty in making a diagnosis and potential problems in using that info to design treatments
- dimensional models of personality are based on healthy people - may not apply to PD
- is there actually a fundamental difference - Proposal to eliminate paranoid, schizoid, histrionic, avoidant and dependent pd
- rational based on a relative lack of research on these disorders and significant comorbidity ( suggests that maybe there is something else that unifies them)
- general PD with the traits specified (suspiciousness, emotional liability, hostility…)
- final DSM 5 retained all disorders, relegated dimensional model to section 3
- people often just get a really general diganosis
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: paranoid
N:
E: low
O: low
A: low*
C:
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: schizoid
N:
E: low*
O:
A:
C:
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: schizotypal
N: high*
E: low*
O: high*
A:
C:
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: Borderline
N: high*
E: high
O:
A: low
C: low
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: Narcissistic
N: high
E: high
O:
A: low*
C: low
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: histrionic
N: high*
E: high*
O: high*
A:
C: low
Describe based on the 5 factor model of personality: antisocial
N:
E:
O:
A: low*
C: low*