Differentiating Normal And Abnormal Personality

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VA Ambulatory Care Center, Los Angeles, CA. Offers an overview of major theories, statistical methods, and measurement instruments for normal and abnormal personality studies. Includes seven models of personality and psychopathology, problems and pitfalls in designing empirical studies, and more. For graduate students in psychology. Previous edition: c1994.

Contributors

xiii

Foreword

Auke Tellegen

Introduction

xvii

Stephen Strack

Acknowledgments

xxviii

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives

Millon's Evolutionary Model for Unifying the Study of Normal and Abnormal Personality

(48)

Theodore Millon

Seth D. Grossman

Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality

(3)

Conceptualizing Personality

(5)

Manifest and Latent Taxa

(7)

An Evolutionary Scaffold for Personality Theory

(15)

Personological Assessment

(8)

Concluding Comment

(5)

Psychopathology from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model

(14)

Robert R. McCrae

The Definition of Personality

(1)

AXIS I Psychopathology and the FFM

(1)

AXIS II Psychopathology and the FFM

(2)

A Proposed Definition of Personality-Related Disorders

(3)

An Example: The Obsessive-Compulsive Style

(1)

Personality-Related Problems and the DSM

(1)

Acknowledgments

(4)

Differentiating Personality Deviance. Normality, and Well-Being by the Seven-Factor Psychobiological Model

(18)

C. Robert Cloninger

Definition and Range of Personality

(2)

Content and Movement of Thought

(2)

Differentiating Levels of Maturity and Well-Being

(4)

Practical Issues and Supports for Professional TCI Use

(1)

Summary and Conclusions

(1)

Acknowledgments

(4)

Interpersonal Theory and the Interpersonal Circumplex: Evolving Perspectives on Normal and Abnormal Personality

(30)

Aaron L. Pincus

Michael B. Gurtman

The Interpersonal Tradition in Personality

(8)

Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Individual Differences in Traits

(8)

Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Interpersonal Transaction and Reciprocity

100

(4)

Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Covert Internal Processes

104

(2)

Concluding Remarks

106

(7)

Cognitive Theory of Personality and Personality Disorders

113

(24)

Marjorie E. Weishaar

Aaron T. Beck

Theory of Personality

113

(6)

Personality and Psychopathology

119

(6)

Assessment Instruments for Personality Disorders

125

(2)

Tests of the Cognitive Theory of Personality Disorders

127

(1)

Tests of Cognitive Behavior Therapy

128

(2)

Principles of Cognitive Therapy with Personality Disorders

130

(2)

Acknowledgments

132

(5)

Psychobiological Models and Issues

137

(28)

Gordon Claridge

Reductionism, Asymmetry, and Continuity

141

(4)

Temperament, Personality, and Deviance

145

(6)

Dimensionality of Psychosis

151

(6)

Final Remarks

157

(8)

Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality from the Perspective of the DSM

165

(22)

Douglas B. Samuel

Thomas A. Widiger

Personality Disorder Diagnoses via DSM-IV

165

(3)

Personality Disorder Diagnostic Thresholds

168

(1)

Conceptual Distinction Between Normal and Abnormal Personality

169

(1)

Deviation from Cultural Expectations

170

(1)

Behavioral, Psychological, or Biological Dysfunction

171

(3)

Inflexibility and Dyscontrol

174

(2)

Clinically Significant Impairment

176

(4)

Conclusions

180

(7)

Part 2: Methodology

Problems and Pitfalls in Designing Research on Normal--Abnormal Personality

187

(22)

Stephen Strack

General Design Issues

188

(6)

Specific Design Issues

194

(11)

Conclusions

205

(1)

Acknowledgments

206

(3)

Principles of Exploratory Factor Analysis

209

(30)

Lewis R. Goldberg

Wayne F. Velicer

Decisions to Be Made Prior to Collecting the Data

212

(3)

Decisions to Be Made After the Data Have Been Obtained

215

(2)

Decisions Directly Related to Factor Analysis

217

(13)

Vertical and Horizontal Aspects of Factor Structures in Personality

230

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

232

(2)

Acknowledgments

234

(5)

Latent Variable Modeling: Representing the Structural Continuity and Discontinuity of Normal and Abnormal Personality

239

(18)

Kristian E. Markon

Robert F. Krueger

Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models

239

(4)

Estimating Latent Variable Models

243

(2)

Modeling Latent Distributions

245

(2)

Comparing Models

247

(7)

Summary

254

(3)

Methods for Understanding Genetic and Environmental Influences in Normal and Abnormal Personality

257

(26)

Laura A. Baker

Quantitative Genetic Methods

258

(15)

Molecular Genetic Methods

273

(5)

Future Directions

278

(5)

Taxometrics

283

(28)

Nick Haslam

Ben Williams

Overview of Taxometric Methods

286

(2)

Taxometric Studies of Personality

288

(9)

How to Do It

297

(7)

The Future of Taxometrics

304

(1)

Conclusions

305

(6)

Part 3: Measurement and Assessment

Assessment of Maladaptive Personality Traits

311

(26)

Thomas A. Widiger

Paul T. Costa Jr.

Douglas B. Samuel

Assessment Strategy

312

(3)

Which Instruments to Use?

315

(12)

Convergent and Discriminant Validity

327

(10)

Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Personality with the MMPI-2

337

(46)

Yossef S. Ben-Porath

Theoretical Underpinnings and Construction of the MMPI

337

(4)

Evolution of the Original MMPI

341

(16)

The MMPI-2: 2001 Update

357

(5)

The MMPI-2: Post--2001 Developments

362

(11)

Future Directions for the MMPI-2

373

(1)

Conclusions

374

(1)

Acknowledgment

375

(8)

Interpersonal Circumplex Measures

383

(18)

Kenneth D. Locke

Measures

385

(6)

Scoring and Interpreting IPC Inventories

391

(1)

Using IPC Measures to Assess Abnormality

392

(5)

Caveats and Conclusions

397

(4)

The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP) Approach to Personality Disorder

401

(30)

W. John Livesley

Overview of the DAPP Constructs and Measures

402

(1)

Conceptual Foundations

402

(1)

Constructing a Theoretical Taxonomy: A Lexical Approach

403

(2)

Scale Construction

405

(1)

Preliminary Psychometric Analyses

405

(1)

Structure of Personality Disorder

406

(1)

Primary Structure

407

(1)

Primary Traits

408

(2)

Secondary Structure

410

(2)

Genetic Architecture of the DAPP

412

(1)

Genetic Influences on Basic Traits

413

(1)

Relationship with Other Models of Normal and Disordered Personality

414

(1)

Personality Disorder

414

(1)

Normal Personality

415

(4)

The Distinction Between Normal and Disordered Personality

419

(1)

Extreme Variation

419

(1)

Maladaptive Trait Expression

420

(1)

Specific Trait Constellations

421

(1)

Personality Failure

422

(2)

Classification and Diagnosis

424

(1)

Concluding Comments

425

(6)

The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): A Dimensional Measure of Traits Relevant to Personality and Personality Pathology

431

(20)

Leonard J. Simms

Lee Anna Clark

Dimensional Assessment

433

(1)

The SNAP

434

(7)

Other SNAP Scales

441

(1)

Potential Research Applications

442

(2)

Clinical Case Example

444

(3)

Summary and Conclusions

447

(1)

Acknowledgments

448

(3)

The Personality Assessment Inventory and the Measurement of Normal and Abnormal Personality Constructs

451

(22)

Leslie C. Morey

Christopher J. Hopwood

An Overview of the PAI

451

(1)

Theoretical Basis and Test Development

452

(2)

Normative Data

454

(1)

Reliability

455

(1)

Validity

456

(11)

Summary

467

(6)

Rorschach Assessment of Normal and Abnormal Personality

473

(28)

Ronald J. Ganellen

Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Rorschach

475

(1)

Implicit and Explicit Measures of Personality

476

(4)

Dimensions of Personality Functioning Assessed by the Rorschach

480

(5)

Reliability

485

(2)

Validity

487

(5)

Racial and Ethnic Differences

492

(3)

Directions for Future Research

495

(6)

Name Index

501

(16)

Subject Index

517

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