FIVE-FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY

I. Introduction..............................................2

II. Five Factor Model.........................................2

Description...............................................2

Other factor models.......................................2

FFM dimensions............................................3

Dimension descriptions....................................3

FFM measurement instruments...............................4

Category versus dimensional approaches....................4

III. FFM & Personality Disorders...............................5

Validity..................................................5

Wiggins and Pincus........................................5

Costa and Widiger.........................................6

Costa and McCrae..........................................7

Reservations..............................................8

IV. FFM & Other Clinical Applications........................10

Addiction, symptoms, and AIDS risk.......................11

Drug abuse...............................................11

Sexual offenders.........................................12

V. FFM & Treatment Planning.................................13

FFM and trait understanding for treatment................13

Traits and treatment types...............................13

VI. FFM & Health Research....................................14

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omprehensive model for use regarding normal and abnormal personality (Costa & Widiger, pp. 41-52; & Trull, p. 553). Costa and Widiger report that the paranoid personality disorder is characterized by low agreeableness, the neuroticism facet of angry hostility, low extraversion, and low openness. The narcissistic and antisocial/psychopathic disorders also involve low agreeableness. Antisocial/psychopathic disorder involves low conscientiousness; narcissistic disorder includes normal or high levels of conscientiousness. Schizoid disorder involves limited emotional experience and expression or excessive introversion. Schizotypal disorder also involves excessive introversion; differences in degrees of neuroticism and openness to fantasy, distinguish the two disorders. Borderline personality disorder has features that correspond to neuroticism facets of hostility, impulsivity, vulnerability, depression, and anxiety; anger, impulsivity, and low compliance are also found. Histrionic disorder is distinguished from borderline by levels of openness to experience. Avoidant disorder includes introversion and neuroticism. Dependent disorder also involves introversion and neuroticism, with self-descriptions of low in conscientiousness.
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