A Bright Side, Facet Analysis of Histrionic Personality Disorder: The Relationship Between the HDS Colourful Factor and the NEO-PI-R Facets in a Large Adult Sample

Abstract

This study looks at "bright-side," Big Five Personality trait correlates of a "dark-side" Personality Disorder, namely Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). More than 5000 British adults completed the Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Personality Inventory-Revised (Costa & McCrae, 1985), which measures the Big Five Personality factors at the Domain (Super Factor) and the Facet (Factor) level, as well as the Hogan Development Survey (HDS; Hogan & Hogan, 2009), which has a measure of HPD, exclusively called "Colourful" in the HDS terminology. Correlation and regression results confirmed many of the associations between these "bright" and "dark" side individual difference variables. The Colourful (HPD) score from the HDS was the criterion variable in all analyses. Colourful individuals are high on Extraversion and Openness, but also Stable and disagreeable. The Facet analysis identified Assertiveness and Immodesty as particularly characteristic of that type. The study confirmed work on HPD using different population groups and different measures, showing that personality traits are predictable and correlated with various personality disorders.

Predicting Personality Disorder Functioning Styles by the Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire in Healthy Volunteers and Personality Disorder Patients

“…Narcissistic style was negatively predicted by agreeableness in patients, which was also in line with the finding that the agreeableness level was lower in the narcissistic individuals [53,54]. The histrionic personality disorder patients often display disagreeable behaviors [55,56], and agreeableness has a mild effect to protect their symptomatic remissions [57]. These notions are also supported by our finding that agreeableness was negatively associated with histrionic style in healthy volunteers.…”

Personality correlates of passive-aggressiveness: a NEO-PI-R domain and facet analysis of the HDS Leisurely scale

“…This confirms many clinical observations of them being rather "uptight" and anxious (Oldham & Morris, 2000). There have been various other studies similar to this which have attempted to ascertain the amount of variance the Big Five can account for in the analysis of a PD (Furnham & Crump, 2014a;2014b;2014c;2015). Thus studies on Schizotypal and AntiSocial PD show that the Big Five at either domain or facet level account for as much as a third of the variance.…”

“…Based on the work of Moscoso and Salgado (2004) it was predicted that PAPD/Leisurely would be significantly positively correlated with Neuroticism and negatively correlated with Extraversion, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. It follows the same analytic strategy of Furnham and Crump (2013;2014a;2014b;2014c;2015).…”

A comprehensive model of predictors of persistence and recurrence in adults with major depression: Results from a national 3-year prospective study

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