Abstract
Personality traits predict physical health outcomes, including health behaviors, disease, and mortality. Maladaptive traits of personality disorders may predict even more variance in physical health indicators. Dimensional models of maladaptive personality traits are replacing categorical models of personality disorder, and the Five-Factor Model of personality disorder (FFMPD) is a useful dimensional model of maladaptive traits. However, there has been little work investigating the criterion validity of the FFMPD. The present study serves as a broad initial overview of the FFMPD scales in the prediction of health behaviors, heath perceptions, and insomnia symptoms across two time points in a representative community sample of older adults (N = 1,060). Findings indicate that the FFMPD scales explain a significant amount of variance in the physical health variables across time. Exploratory analyses indicate that the FFMPD traits have incremental validity over covariates, normal-range personality traits, and personality disorder criteria.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 801-818 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Personality Disorders |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Guilford Press.
Keywords
- Aging
- Five-factor model
- Maladaptive personality
- Personality disorder
- Personality traits
- Physical health
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health