How Likable Are Personality Disorder and General Personality Traits to Those Who Possess Them?

Abstract

These findings have implications for the ways that individuals with personality pathology perceive the people around them, which may in turn impact their expectations and behaviors.

Emerging adult reactions to labeling regarding age-group differences in narcissism and entitlement

“…Furthermore, individuals higher in trait narcissism and trait entitlement reported more subjectively positive evaluations of those traits. Such findings are generally consistent with prior literature [45,46] noting that narcissistic individuals tend to be more favorably inclined toward narcissistic traits, particularly in abstract exercises (such as rating opinions of traits).…”

“…These findings are supported by a recent body of research showing that individuals high in narcissistic tendencies tend to endorse generally positive attitudes toward narcissistic traits such as arrogance and boastfulness [44] and even antagonism [45]. Of note, these positive attitudes toward narcissistic traits are often more theoretical than practical [46].…”

A Brief but Comprehensive Review of Research on the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders

“…Other examples are studies showing that individual differences in trait facets are relatively stable across periods of 2 weeks [57, 235], 4 months [285], and more than 1 year [286]. Further issues that have been addressed include measurement invariance or item bias due to age [287,288], gender [217,289], and clinical status [290]; response styles in PID-5 self-reports [154,155,291,292]; heritability and familial aggregation of maladaptive traits [39,289,[293][294][295]; and perceived likability, impairment, functionality, as well as desire and ability for change of maladaptive traits [68,158,[296][297][298].…”

Do psychopathic birds of a feather flock together? Psychopathic personality traits and romantic preferences

“…Virtually all psychological research points to homophily ("like attracts like") as a general principle for mate preferences, although this principle appears to hold more strongly for hypothetically expressed than for actual preferences (Finkel, Eastwick, Karney, Reis, & Sprecher, 2012). Recent studies of individuals in committed relationships (Kardum, Hudek-Knezevic, Schmitt, & Covic, 2017), including married couples (Weiss etal., 2018), have revealed a small to medium association between partners' overall psychopathic traits, raising the possibility that the individuals who report the most attraction to prospective psychopathic partners are those with marked psychopathic traits themselves (for related evidence, see also Jonason, Valentine, Li, & Harbeson, 2011;Lamkin, Maples-Keller, & Miller, 2018;Sleep etal., 2017). Another study demonstrated that psychopathic females preferred males with high levels of Dark Triad traits (i.e., an amalgam of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy; Paulhus & Williams, 2002) and found them more physically attractive, desirable for a casual sexual encounter, and even more suitable for marriage (Jonason, Lyons, & Blanchard, 2015).…”