title: Evaluating NEO Personality Inventory-Revised profiles in veterans with personality disorders.
abstract: Fifty-one psychiatric, veteran outpatients were assessed for personality disorders on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Disorders (SCID-II; First, Gibbon, Spitzer, Williams, & Benjamin, 1997a) and were also administered the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992). Results were compared to Trull and Widiger's (1997) hypotheses about the profiles of such patients and similar past studies. Correlations between NEO-PI-R facets and SCID-II personality disorder symptom clusters generally occurred in the expected direction. Facets hypothesized to be associated with a given personality disorder were able to predict variance in their respective SCID-II personality disorder scores for seven of ten personality disorders. In general, results support the facet-level conceptualizations of these disorders, except for Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7334, USA. Steven_Huprich@baylor.edu
authors.forename: Steven K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Huprich
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*