Abstract
Often, psychodiagnostic entities, like phobias, have been assumed implicitly to be homogeneous with respect to important personality variables. Three types of phobic women, agoraphobics, social phobics and simple phobics ( n = 15 per type) were compared among themselves and with non-phobics on a variety of personality characteristics. The same was done with phobic men (respectively, n = 12, n = 11, n = 8). The results showed that types of phobia differ with regard to several personality characteristics; for women differently than for men. Implications for theory building, diagnosis, and therapy are discussed. On the whole, a personality-oriented approach to psychopathology is advocated.
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