Differentiating Normal And Abnormal Personality

by Strack, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780826132062
• ISBN10: 0826132065
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

VA Ambulatory Care Center, Los Angeles, CA. Offers an overview of major theories, statistical methods, and measurement instruments for normal and abnormal personality studies. Includes seven models of personality and psychopathology, problems and pitfalls in designing empirical studies, and more. For graduate students in psychology. Previous edition: c1994.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Foreword	xv
Auke Tellegen
Introduction	xvii
Stephen Strack
Acknowledgments	xxviii
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives
Millon's Evolutionary Model for Unifying the Study of Normal and Abnormal Personality	3	(48)
Theodore Millon
Seth D. Grossman
Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality	8	(3)
Conceptualizing Personality	11	(5)
Manifest and Latent Taxa	16	(7)
An Evolutionary Scaffold for Personality Theory	23	(15)
Personological Assessment	38	(8)
Concluding Comment	46	(5)
Psychopathology from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model	51	(14)
Robert R. McCrae
The Definition of Personality	53	(1)
AXIS I Psychopathology and the FFM	54	(1)
AXIS II Psychopathology and the FFM	54	(2)
A Proposed Definition of Personality-Related Disorders	56	(3)
An Example: The Obsessive-Compulsive Style	59	(1)
Personality-Related Problems and the DSM	60	(1)
Acknowledgments	61	(4)
Differentiating Personality Deviance. Normality, and Well-Being by the Seven-Factor Psychobiological Model	65	(18)
C. Robert Cloninger
Definition and Range of Personality	69	(2)
Content and Movement of Thought	71	(2)
Differentiating Levels of Maturity and Well-Being	73	(4)
Practical Issues and Supports for Professional TCI Use	77	(1)
Summary and Conclusions	78	(1)
Acknowledgments	79	(4)
Interpersonal Theory and the Interpersonal Circumplex: Evolving Perspectives on Normal and Abnormal Personality	83	(30)
Aaron L. Pincus
Michael B. Gurtman
The Interpersonal Tradition in Personality	84	(8)
Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Individual Differences in Traits	92	(8)
Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Interpersonal Transaction and Reciprocity	100	(4)
Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Covert Internal Processes	104	(2)
Concluding Remarks	106	(7)
Cognitive Theory of Personality and Personality Disorders	113	(24)
Marjorie E. Weishaar
Aaron T. Beck
Theory of Personality	113	(6)
Personality and Psychopathology	119	(6)
Assessment Instruments for Personality Disorders	125	(2)
Tests of the Cognitive Theory of Personality Disorders	127	(1)
Tests of Cognitive Behavior Therapy	128	(2)
Principles of Cognitive Therapy with Personality Disorders	130	(2)
Acknowledgments	132	(5)
Psychobiological Models and Issues	137	(28)
Gordon Claridge
Reductionism, Asymmetry, and Continuity	141	(4)
Temperament, Personality, and Deviance	145	(6)
Dimensionality of Psychosis	151	(6)
Final Remarks	157	(8)
Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality from the Perspective of the DSM	165	(22)
Douglas B. Samuel
Thomas A. Widiger
Personality Disorder Diagnoses via DSM-IV	165	(3)
Personality Disorder Diagnostic Thresholds	168	(1)
Conceptual Distinction Between Normal and Abnormal Personality	169	(1)
Deviation from Cultural Expectations	170	(1)
Behavioral, Psychological, or Biological Dysfunction	171	(3)
Inflexibility and Dyscontrol	174	(2)
Clinically Significant Impairment	176	(4)
Conclusions	180	(7)
Part 2: Methodology
Problems and Pitfalls in Designing Research on Normal--Abnormal Personality	187	(22)
Stephen Strack
General Design Issues	188	(6)
Specific Design Issues	194	(11)
Conclusions	205	(1)
Acknowledgments	206	(3)
Principles of Exploratory Factor Analysis	209	(30)
Lewis R. Goldberg
Wayne F. Velicer
Decisions to Be Made Prior to Collecting the Data	212	(3)
Decisions to Be Made After the Data Have Been Obtained	215	(2)
Decisions Directly Related to Factor Analysis	217	(13)
Vertical and Horizontal Aspects of Factor Structures in Personality	230	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	232	(2)
Acknowledgments	234	(5)
Latent Variable Modeling: Representing the Structural Continuity and Discontinuity of Normal and Abnormal Personality	239	(18)
Kristian E. Markon
Robert F. Krueger
Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models	239	(4)
Estimating Latent Variable Models	243	(2)
Modeling Latent Distributions	245	(2)
Comparing Models	247	(7)
Summary	254	(3)
Methods for Understanding Genetic and Environmental Influences in Normal and Abnormal Personality	257	(26)
Laura A. Baker
Quantitative Genetic Methods	258	(15)
Molecular Genetic Methods	273	(5)
Future Directions	278	(5)
Taxometrics	283	(28)
Nick Haslam
Ben Williams
Overview of Taxometric Methods	286	(2)
Taxometric Studies of Personality	288	(9)
How to Do It	297	(7)
The Future of Taxometrics	304	(1)
Conclusions	305	(6)
Part 3: Measurement and Assessment
Assessment of Maladaptive Personality Traits	311	(26)
Thomas A. Widiger
Paul T. Costa Jr.
Douglas B. Samuel
Assessment Strategy	312	(3)
Which Instruments to Use?	315	(12)
Convergent and Discriminant Validity	327	(10)
Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Personality with the MMPI-2	337	(46)
Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Theoretical Underpinnings and Construction of the MMPI	337	(4)
Evolution of the Original MMPI	341	(16)
The MMPI-2: 2001 Update	357	(5)
The MMPI-2: Post--2001 Developments	362	(11)
Future Directions for the MMPI-2	373	(1)
Conclusions	374	(1)
Acknowledgment	375	(8)
Interpersonal Circumplex Measures	383	(18)
Kenneth D. Locke
Measures	385	(6)
Scoring and Interpreting IPC Inventories	391	(1)
Using IPC Measures to Assess Abnormality	392	(5)
Caveats and Conclusions	397	(4)
The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP) Approach to Personality Disorder	401	(30)
W. John Livesley
Overview of the DAPP Constructs and Measures	402	(1)
Conceptual Foundations	402	(1)
Constructing a Theoretical Taxonomy: A Lexical Approach	403	(2)
Scale Construction	405	(1)
Preliminary Psychometric Analyses	405	(1)
Structure of Personality Disorder	406	(1)
Primary Structure	407	(1)
Primary Traits	408	(2)
Secondary Structure	410	(2)
Genetic Architecture of the DAPP	412	(1)
Genetic Influences on Basic Traits	413	(1)
Relationship with Other Models of Normal and Disordered Personality	414	(1)
Personality Disorder	414	(1)
Normal Personality	415	(4)
The Distinction Between Normal and Disordered Personality	419	(1)
Extreme Variation	419	(1)
Maladaptive Trait Expression	420	(1)
Specific Trait Constellations	421	(1)
Personality Failure	422	(2)
Classification and Diagnosis	424	(1)
Concluding Comments	425	(6)
The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): A Dimensional Measure of Traits Relevant to Personality and Personality Pathology	431	(20)
Leonard J. Simms
Lee Anna Clark
Dimensional Assessment	433	(1)
The SNAP	434	(7)
Other SNAP Scales	441	(1)
Potential Research Applications	442	(2)
Clinical Case Example	444	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	447	(1)
Acknowledgments	448	(3)
The Personality Assessment Inventory and the Measurement of Normal and Abnormal Personality Constructs	451	(22)
Leslie C. Morey
Christopher J. Hopwood
An Overview of the PAI	451	(1)
Theoretical Basis and Test Development	452	(2)
Normative Data	454	(1)
Reliability	455	(1)
Validity	456	(11)
Summary	467	(6)
Rorschach Assessment of Normal and Abnormal Personality	473	(28)
Ronald J. Ganellen
Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Rorschach	475	(1)
Implicit and Explicit Measures of Personality	476	(4)
Dimensions of Personality Functioning Assessed by the Rorschach	480	(5)
Reliability	485	(2)
Validity	487	(5)
Racial and Ethnic Differences	492	(3)
Directions for Future Research	495	(6)
Name Index	501	(16)
Subject Index	517