Five-factor model of personality disorders: Spanish normative data and validation

• Published in: Anales de psicología (Murcia, Spain) Vol. 34; no. 2; p. 264
• Main Authors: Colodro, Joaquín, López-García, Juan J., Mezquita, Laura, Colodro-Conde, Lucía, Ibáñez, Manuel I., Edo, Silvia, Villa, Elena, Ortet, Generós
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Ex post facto design; Personality disorders
• ISSN: 0212-9728; 1695-2294
• DOI: 10.6018/analesps.34.2.289271

The categorical approach of personality disorders (PD) has given way to a dimensional paradigm. Within this, the Five-factor model (FFM) proposes theoretical hypotheses describing personality pathologies and PD empirical prototypes based on the DSM (DSM-PD). Moreover, a methodology to score DSM-PD using the NEO PI-R facets was developed. In this ex post-facto study FFM-PD count norms were developed using data from the NEO PI-R Spanish adaptation. Furthermore, the diagnostic agreement with the IPDE and validity of FFM-PD counts was analyzed in a clinical (n = 222) and non-clinical sample (n = 742). Based on NEO PI-R scores, we presented Spanish FFM-PD normative data. FFM-PD benchmarks were highly likely to be exceeded if subjects were classified as a subclinical case in the DSM-PD. Convergent correlations of FFM-PD counts with their equivalent subclinical cases of DSM-PD were statistically significant and outperformed any divergent correlation as well as the average divergent correlations in all FFM-PD. The use of a count technique based on NEO PI-R facets and Spanish FFM-PD normative data facilitate PD understanding and interpretation in various applied psychology fields.