Maladaptively High and Low Openness: The Case for Experiential Permeability

The domain of Openness within the Five‐Factor Model (FFM) has received inconsistent support as a source for maladaptive personality functioning, at least when the latter is confined to the disorders of personality included within the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Stati...

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Published in:Journal of personality 2012-12, Vol.80 (6), p.1641-1668
Main Authors: Piedmont, Ralph L., Sherman, Martin F., Sherman, Nancy C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Experiential Permeability Inventory
Experimental psychology
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Humans
Maladaptive behaviour
Medical diagnosis
Mental illness
Models, Psychological
Openness
Personality
Personality - classification
Personality Assessment - standards
Personality disorders
Personality Disorders - classification
Personality Disorders - diagnosis
Personality Disorders - psychology
Personality measurement
Personality traits
Psychiatric disorders
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - standards
Psychometrics
Psychotherapy
Reproducibility of Results
Validation
Validity
Variance
Variants
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Summary:The domain of Openness within the Five‐Factor Model (FFM) has received inconsistent support as a source for maladaptive personality functioning, at least when the latter is confined to the disorders of personality included within the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‐IV‐TR; APA, ). However, an advantage of the FFM relative to the DSM‐IV‐TR is that the former was developed to provide a reasonably comprehensive description of general personality structure. Rather than suggest that the FFM is inadequate because the DSM‐IV‐TR lacks much representation of Openness, it might be just as reasonable to suggest that the DSM‐IV‐TR is inadequate because it lacks an adequate representation of maladaptive variants of both high and low Openness. This article discusses the development and validation of a measure of these maladaptive variants, the Experiential Permeability Inventory.
ISSN:0022-3506
1467-6494
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00777.x