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Personality disorders and relationship to personality dimensions measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory in patients with obsessive‐compulsive disorder
Author(s) -
Bejerot S.,
Schlette P.,
Ekselius L.,
Adolfsson R.,
Knorring L.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb10075.x
Subject(s) - temperament and character inventory , novelty seeking , psychology , personality , personality disorders , temperament , clinical psychology , reward dependence , personality assessment inventory , character (mathematics) , sadistic personality disorder , obsessive compulsive , avoidant personality disorder , cluster (spacecraft) , psychiatry , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , computer science , programming language
The occurrence of personality disorders was investigated in 36 patients with obsessive‐compulsive disorder by means of the SCID Screen questionnaire. In addition, the personality dimensions were explored by means of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). In total, 75% of the patients fulfilled the criteria for a personality disorder according to the SCID Screen questionnaire, mostly (55%) within cluster C. Several significant correlations were found between the separate personality disorders (PD) and subscales of the TCI, the most pronounced being between avoidant and obsessive‐compulsive PD and novelty‐seeking and self‐directedness. Strong correlations were also found between self‐directedness and paranoid and borderline PD. In multiple regressions where the presence of PD in clusters A, B and C, respectively, were used as dependent variables and where the separate subscales of the TCI were used as independent variables, the multiple R reached 0.68, 0.76 and 0.80 in clusters A, B and C, respectively. Thus 46–64% of the variance in the personality disorder clusters could be explained by the TCI subscales.