An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample

Hengartner, Michael Pascal; de Fruyt, Filip; Rodgers, Stephanie; Müller, Mario; Rössler, Wulf; Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta

doi:10.1002/pmh.1263

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Not specified
Title:	An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample
Authors:	Hengartner, Michael Pascal de Fruyt, Filip Rodgers, Stephanie Müller, Mario Rössler, Wulf Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta
DOI:	10.1002/pmh.1263
Published in:	Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour
Volume(Issue):	8
Issue:	4
Page(s):	276
Pages to:	289
Issue Date:	Jul-2014
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiley
ISSN:	1932-8621 1932-863X
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	155: Differential and developmental psychology 616.8: Neurology, diseases of nervous system
Abstract:	Recently, the severity of general personality dysfunction has gained broad interest in personality disorder (PD) research. We analysed data of 511 participants aged 20-41 years from a comprehensive psychiatric survey in the general population of Zurich, Switzerland. We added the trait-scores from all DSM-IV PDs, as assessed by a self-report questionnaire, to provide a measure of general personality dysfunction. Adjusting for the Big Five personality domains as a proxy for stylistic PD elements, this composite PD score exhibited strong associations with neuroticism and schizotypy. General personality dysfunction additionally revealed a moderate detrimental association with psychosocial functioning and a strong effect on coping resources, on heavy drinking and drug use and on most psychopathological syndromes. Of particular interest is the strong association with total psychopathological distress and co-occurrence of multiple disorders, suggesting that increasing PD severity relates to the degree of global impairment independent of specific PD traits. Discussed herein are implications for public mental health policies, classification, conceptualization and treatment of PDs.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2290
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Psychology
Organisational Unit:	Psychological Institute (PI)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Psychologie

Files in This Item:

There are no files associated with this item.

Show full item record

Hengartner, M. P., de Fruyt, F., Rodgers, S., Müller, M., Rössler, W., & Ajdacic-Gross, V. (2014). An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 8(4), 276–289. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1263

Hengartner, M.P. et al. (2014) ‘An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample’, Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 8(4), pp. 276–289. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1263.

M. P. Hengartner, F. de Fruyt, S. Rodgers, M. Müller, W. Rössler, and V. Ajdacic-Gross, “An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample,” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 276–289, Jul. 2014, doi: 10.1002/pmh.1263.

HENGARTNER, Michael Pascal, Filip DE FRUYT, Stephanie RODGERS, Mario MÜLLER, Wulf RÖSSLER und Vladeta AJDACIC-GROSS, 2014. An integrative examination of general personality dysfunction in a large community sample. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour. Juli 2014. Bd. 8, Nr. 4, S. 276–289. DOI 10.1002/pmh.1263

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, Filip de Fruyt, Stephanie Rodgers, Mario Müller, Wulf Rössler, and Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross. 2014. “An Integrative Examination of General Personality Dysfunction in a Large Community Sample.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour 8 (4): 276–89. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1263.

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, et al. “An Integrative Examination of General Personality Dysfunction in a Large Community Sample.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 8, no. 4, July 2014, pp. 276–89, https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1263.