Interpersonal Circumplex Model Research Articles

Where is the Personality in Personality Disorder Assessment? A Comparison Across Four Sets of Personality Disorder Scales

The present research examined the amount and kind of personality measured within four sets of personality disorder (PD) scales. Three samples of undergraduate students (Ns = 326, 537, and 617) completed at least one PD measure and a combined interpersonal circumplex model (ICM) and five-factor model (FFM) measure. The FFM dimensions were found to account for between 5% to 57% of the variance in personality disorder symptomatology depending on the PD examined and the PD measure employed. Consistent with previous research, Neuroticism and low Extraversion often emerged as the primary predictors of PD symptomatology, but variability in the particular aspects of personality assessed within each of the PD measures was apparent within the ICM and FFM findings. The implications of the findings for conceptualization and measurement of PDs are discussed.

An Interpersonal Conceptualization and Quantification of Social Support Transactions

The present article applies Cobb’s original formulation of the social support construct and elaborates a theoretical and empirical framework employing the interpersonal circumplex model that has proved useful for elucidating concepts and measures from a variety of research traditions. In a series of studies, 1,040 undergraduate students completed self-report questionnaires indicating their likelihood of performing various support actions. A circumplex structure was obtained that was both substantively and structurally auspicious and that provided a taxonomic framework within which 12 extant social support subscales and 15 personality characteristics were clarified. The Support Actions Scale Circumplex (SAS-C) assesses a broad range of social support behavior, including both the potentially protective and deleterious effects of interpersonal transactions.

Social Support as an Interpersonal Construct

Summary: The present article relied upon interpersonal theory ( Sullivan, 1953 ), the interpersonal circumplex model ( Leary, 1957 ), resource exchange theory ( Foa & Foa, 1974 ), and the meta-constructs of agency and communion ( Bakan, 1966 ; Wiggins, 1991 ) in the attempt to explicate a theoretical and measurement model of social support. The Support Actions Scale - Circumplex (SAS-C; Trobst, in press ) provides a circumplex measure of social support whose psychometric characteristics are comparable to the best circumplexes reported in the literature. Empirical findings using this recent measure are summarized and interpreted with respect to an interpersonal theory perspective.

A Comparison of Interpersonal Scripts in Clinically Depressed versus Nondepressed Individuals

This study examined the role of interpersonal scripts in differentiating between clinically depressed and nondepressed individuals. Subjects were 21 individuals diagnosed as having major depression and 21 matched controls. Narratives about interpersonal interactions were coded for interpersonal scripts by rating multiple components of a script (wishes, behaviors, and feelings of self; behaviors and feelings of other) for multiple contents (based on an interpersonal circumplex model). The depressed group was characterized by two antithetical scripts: in one script the self wishes to be and acts relying while feeling trusting and the other acts nurturing while feeling interested; in the other script the self wishes to be and acts distancing while feeling sad and the other acts neglecting while feeling apathetic. Implications of the findings for cognitive and interpersonal models of depression are discussed.

Measures of mental health and a five factor theory of personality.

Principal components analyses were calculated with intercorrelations of scores on scales measuring mental health and the five-factor model of personality on a sample of 296 university students. Mental health was measured with Affect Balance scale, Happiness Measure, Satisfaction with Life scale, Life Orientation test, Short Index of Self-actualization, Social Interest scale, and the Self-control Schedule, along with subscales from Scales of Psychological Well-being, Openness to Experience scale, and the Perceived Self Questionnaire. The five-factor model was measured with the Interpersonal Adjective Scale Revised-B5. Separate analyses for both the traditional five-factor model and the expanded interpersonal circumplex model of personality gave six-factor solutions. Scores on scales measuring subjective well-being, openness, and social interest loaded on the same factors as Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, and Agreeableness, respectively. Scales that measured autonomy and self-actualization formed a factor that was separate from the five-factor model.

Construct validation of health-relevant personality traits: Interpersonal circumplex and five-factor model analyses of the aggression questionnaire

The general literature on personality traits as risk factors for physical illness--as well as the specific literature on health consequences of anger, hostility, and aggressive behavior--often suffers from incomplete or inconsistent construct validation of personality measures. This study illustrates the utility of two conceptual tools in this regard--the five-factor model and the interpersonal circumplex. The similarities and differences among anger, hostility, verbal aggressiveness, and physical aggressiveness as measured by the Buss and Perry (1992) Aggression Questionnaire were identified. Results support the interpretation of anger and hostility as primarily reflecting neurotic hostility and antagonistic hostility to a lesser extent. In contrast, verbal and physical aggressiveness can he seen as primarily reflecting antagonistic hostility, and to a lesser extent neurotic hostility. Further, verbal aggressiveness was associated with hostile dominance, whereas hostility was associated with hostile submissiveness. These findings identify potentially important distinctions among these related constructs and illustrate the potential integrative value of standard validation procedures.

Circumnavigating Dodge Morgan's interpersonal style.

The Interpersonal Circumplex Model provides a third perspective on Dodge Morgan's personality that clarifies and extends the perspectives provided by the five-factor and life-story models. Classification of Morgan as a prototypical autonomous personality "type" allows for nomothetic interpretations based on an extensive empirical literature. An explicit structural representation of agency and communion served to reveal the diversity of substantive interpretations that have been made with respect to these metaconcepts. Agreement on a structural representation of agency and communion might lead to more uniform interpretations of their dynamic relations with each another.

The Interpersonal Circumplex: A Theory and Method for Applied Psychology

The major properties of the interpersonal circumplex model, and measurement procedures that accompany it, are described. It is suggested that the model and procedures can handle social interaction at a variety of levels from micro to macro, and are ideally suited to studying the interface between interpersonal behavior and social structure. Areas of present and potential application are described including psychotherapy and family processes, conflict and conciliation, consultation and advocacy, autonomy and leadership. Some methodological and substantive problems and issues pertaining to the model and measurement procedures are discussed and some possible extensions to the model proposed. These include the need to further incorporate socio-emotional variables into the model; the possibility of using the model to describe social settings; and the need to modify the classic theory of interpersonal complementarity.

The Relationship Between A Circumplex Model of Interpersonal Behaviors and Personality Disorders

The Relationship Between A Circumplex Model of Interpersonal Behaviors and Personality DisordersJordan P Sim and David M. RomneyJordan P SimRequests for reprints should be sent to Dr. D. M. Romney. Department of Educational Psychology. University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.Search for more papers by this author and David M. RomneyUniversity of Calgary.Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. D. M. Romney. Department of Educational Psychology. University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:February 2011https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.1990.4.4.329PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations About Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Cited byCited by1. Narcissism on interpersonal circumplex model: Reactions to imaginary abandonment and rejectionOnline publication date: 1 December 2022. 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