TY - JOUR
T1 - The Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire predicts functioning styles of personality disorder
T2 - A trial in healthy subjects and personality-disorder patients
AU - Huang, Jingyi
AU - He, Wei
AU - Chen, Wanzhen
AU - Yu, Wenjun
AU - Chen, Wei
AU - Shen, Mowei
AU - Wang, Wei
PY - 2011/4/30
Y1 - 2011/4/30
N2 - Normal personality traits, as measured by the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ), predicted some personality disorders in a sample of healthy volunteers. Whether these predictions could be more pronounced in patients with personality disorders remains unknown. We administered the ZKPQ and the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), which describes the functioning styles of personality disorder, in 134 patients with a range of personality disorders and in 268 age-, gender- and education level-matched healthy volunteers. Cluster A patients scored lowest on Sociability, cluster B highest on Impulsive Sensation Seeking and Aggression-Hostility, cluster C1 (Avoidant and Dependent types) highest on Neuroticism-Anxiety, and cluster C2 (Obsessive-Compulsive type) highest on Activity. Most of the predictors were consistent across both the healthy and patient groups. The variances that accounted for predicting most PERM styles by the ZKPQ traits in the patient group were higher than those in the healthy group. Our results showed that the ZKPQ traits could specifically predict the PERM styles in both healthy subjects and personality-disorder patients. This result was more pronounced in the latter group. The most powerful predictions were obtained for Antisocial, Dependent, Borderline and Avoidant styles, and the weakest for the Schizotypal and Schizoid styles in the patient group.
AB - Normal personality traits, as measured by the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ), predicted some personality disorders in a sample of healthy volunteers. Whether these predictions could be more pronounced in patients with personality disorders remains unknown. We administered the ZKPQ and the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), which describes the functioning styles of personality disorder, in 134 patients with a range of personality disorders and in 268 age-, gender- and education level-matched healthy volunteers. Cluster A patients scored lowest on Sociability, cluster B highest on Impulsive Sensation Seeking and Aggression-Hostility, cluster C1 (Avoidant and Dependent types) highest on Neuroticism-Anxiety, and cluster C2 (Obsessive-Compulsive type) highest on Activity. Most of the predictors were consistent across both the healthy and patient groups. The variances that accounted for predicting most PERM styles by the ZKPQ traits in the patient group were higher than those in the healthy group. Our results showed that the ZKPQ traits could specifically predict the PERM styles in both healthy subjects and personality-disorder patients. This result was more pronounced in the latter group. The most powerful predictions were obtained for Antisocial, Dependent, Borderline and Avoidant styles, and the weakest for the Schizotypal and Schizoid styles in the patient group.
KW - Alternative five-factor model of normal personality
KW - Personality disorder functioning style
KW - The Parker Personality Measure (PERM)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952359837&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.07.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 20699194
AN - SCOPUS:79952359837
SN - 0165-1781
VL - 186
SP - 320
EP - 325
JO - Psychiatry Research
JF - Psychiatry Research
IS - 2-3
ER -