Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory of Personality

The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Validity of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models.

“…The IPC-based approach offers a parsimonious model that is easy to interpret and to implement (i.e., standard scoring), useful for prediction purposes, and it does not require model estimation (i.e., no sample size requirements, no risk of overfitting). Another benefit is that the IPC is embedded in a metaframework (Dawood et al, 2018; Pincus, Lukowitsky, & Wright, 2010) that provides a link to motivational (being in control of and being close to others) and behavioral aspects of personality (dominance and nurturance). We highlight the importance of including all three interpersonal dimensions in regression analyses to account for correlations between them and to establish the incremental information of severity (i.e., general distress) and style (i.e., agency and communion).…”

Is perceived similarity more than assumed similarity? An interpersonal path to seeing similarity between self and others.

“…among some people and no effect among others. This would be supported by converging research from clinical psychology, showing an association between interpersonal complementarity and mental health (Dawood et al, 2018;Hopwood et al, 2013Pincus, 2005, and social psychology showing an association between psychological adjustment and assumed similarity (Human & Biesanz, 2011). Dysregulation of the interpersonal process of complementarity is an important indicator of personality psychopathology (Benjamin, 1993;Pincus et al, 2010;Pincus & Hopwood, 2012), which may explain why well-adjusted individuals perceive higher levels of assumed similarity with others.…”

Social Interaction Processes and Personality

“…Personality and relationship differences show themselves in SIUs, they influence each other via SIUs, and develop (stabilize and/or change) through SIUs. Please note that this conceptualization of SIUs including the states and state processes it encompasses (see below) has a strong resemblance to the concept of the interpersonal situation in interpersonal theory (Dawood, Dowgwillo, Wu, & Pincus, 2018;Hopwood, 2018;Pincus et al, in press; also see Roche & Cain, this volume).…”

“…In addition, according to the classic concept of assumed similarity (Cronbach, 1955;Kenny, 1994), people tend to view others as they view themselves. In line with the concept of interpersonal complementarity (Dawood et al, 2018;Sadler, Ethier, & Woody, 2011), however, there is some evidence for stronger self-similarity perceptions in the domain of communal traits but self-dissimilarity perceptions in the domain of agentic traits (i.e., dominant individuals view others as more submissive; Dufner, Leising, & Gebauer, 2016;Rau, Nestler, Geukes, Back, & Dufner, 2019;Thielmann, Hilbig, & Zettler, 2020;Tiedens, & Jimenez, 2003). Finally, in the domain of personality pathology, there are a range of ideas and selected findings relating personality disorders to specific perceptional biases (e.g., borderline personality and perceiving abandonment, obsessive-compulsive personality and perceiving imperfection; APA, 2013; Hopwood, 2018).…”

“…Specifically, and in accordance with the dynamics captured in the PERSOC model (Back, Baumert et al, 2011) and Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory (Dawood et al, 2018;Pincus et al, in press), one has to include the perceptions, affective responses, and behaviors of social interaction partners as well. For example, self-assured behavior might lead others to view someone as a natural leader, which triggers social approval behaviors by others (e.g., attention, nodding) which then is perceived by the individual as a cue of admiration leading to the experience of pride and further strengthening self-assured behavior.…”