Childhood antecedents of personality disorder: An alternative perspective

One of the fundamental limitations of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) categorical model of personality disorder classification has been the lack of a strong scientific foundation, including an understanding of childhood antecedents....

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Published in:Development and psychopathology Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 771 - 791
Main Authors: Widiger, Thomas A., De Clercq, Barbara, De Fruyt, Filip
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.08.2009
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adults
Antecedents
Anxiety
Child
Child Behavior Disorders - complications
Childhood
Children
Classification
Clinical psychology
Concept formation
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Disorders
Five factor model
Handbooks
Humans
Laboratories
Life span
Mental disorders
Models, Psychological
Personality
Personality disorders
Personality Disorders - classification
Personality Disorders - etiology
Personality Disorders - genetics
Personality traits
Psychology, Child
Psychopathology
Psychotic Disorders - classification
Psychotic Disorders - etiology
Social psychology
Temperament
Variants
ISSN:0954-5794, 1469-2198, 1469-2198
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Summary:One of the fundamental limitations of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) categorical model of personality disorder classification has been the lack of a strong scientific foundation, including an understanding of childhood antecedents. The DSM-IV-TR personality disorders, however, do appear to be well understood as maladaptive variants of the domains and facets of the general personality structure as conceptualized within the five-factor model (FFM). Integrating the classification of personality disorder with the FFM brings to an understanding of the personality disorders a considerable body of scientific research on childhood antecedents. The temperaments and traits of childhood do appear to be antecedent to the FFM of adult personality structure, and these temperament and traits of childhood and adolescence are the likely antecedents for adult personality disorder, providing further support for the conceptualization of the adult personality disorders as maladaptive variants of the domains and facets of the FFM. Conceptualizing personality disorders in terms of the FFM thereby provides a basis for integrating the classification of abnormal and normal personality functioning across the life span.
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ISSN:0954-5794
1469-2198
1469-2198
DOI:10.1017/S095457940900042X