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Maladaptively High and Low Openness: The Case for Experiential Permeability
Author(s) -
Piedmont Ralph L.,
Sherman Martin F.,
Sherman Nancy C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00777.x
Subject(s) - openness to experience , psychology , personality , clinical psychology , experiential learning , personality disorders , big five personality traits , personality assessment inventory , social psychology , mathematics education
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 , [, 2000]). 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.