Predicting personality disorder functioning styles by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality: a preliminary trial in healthy people and personality disorder patients.

Hongying Fan,Guorong Ma,Bingren Zhang,Wei Wang,Qisha Zhu,Chanchan Shen

doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1017-0

Abstract

BackgroundCultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be specifically associated with different personality disorder functioning styles.MethodsWe therefore have invited 201 healthy volunteers and 67 personality disorder patients to undergo CADP, the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), and the Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP) tests.ResultsPatients scored significantly higher on PVP scale and all 11 PERM personality disorder functioning styles, as well as CADP Emotional and Unsocial traits. The PVP was significantly correlated with some CADP traits and PERM styles in both groups. In healthy volunteers, only one CADP trait, Unsocial, prominently predicted 11 PERM styles. By contrast in patients, CADP Intelligent predicted the PERM Narcissistic and Passive-Aggressive styles; CADP Emotional the PERM Paranoid, Borderline, and Histrionic styles; CADP Conscientious the PERM Obsessive-Compulsive style; CADP Unsocial the PERM Schizotypal, Antisocial, Narcissistic, Avoidant, Dependent, and Passive-Aggressive styles; CADP Agreeable the PERM Antisocial style.ConclusionAs a preliminary study, our results demonstrated that, in personality disorder patients, all five CADP traits were specifically associated with almost all 11 personality disorder functioning styles, indicating that CADP might be used as an aid to diagnose personality disorders in China.

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Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China
A questionnaire based on the Chinese adjective pool, the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) [6], has been developed to measure the normal traits of Intelligent, Emotional, Conscientious, Unsocial and Agreeable, which are comparable to the traits measured by the five-factor model of personality, the Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness respectively
A recent study [11] has shown that the alternative five-factor model of normal traits measured by the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) [12] were associated with the personality disorder functioning styles measured by the Parker Personality Measure (PERM) [13]

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Introduction

Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be associated with different personality disorder functioning styles. A questionnaire based on the Chinese adjective pool, the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) [6], has been developed to measure the normal traits of Intelligent, Emotional, Conscientious, Unsocial and Agreeable, which are comparable to the traits measured by the five-factor model of personality, the Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness respectively. A recent study [11] has shown that the alternative five-factor model of normal traits measured by the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) [12] were associated with the personality disorder functioning styles measured by the Parker Personality Measure (PERM) [13]. The question arises whether the CADP normal traits are associated with the disordered personality in Chinese healthy volunteers as well as in personality disorder patients

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