title: Comparing Dimensional Models Assessing Personality Traits and Personality Pathology Among Adult ADHD and Borderline Personality Disorder.
abstract: This pilot study was a comparison of dimensional models assessing personality traits and personality pathology in a clinical sample of adults diagnosed with ADHD and adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), and a nonclinical control sample of healthy adults.
  
  
  
  Personality traits were assessed using the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) and dimensional personality pathology with the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ).
  
  
  
  Adults with ADHD and BPD produced higher Emotional Dysregulation/Neuroticism and Dissocial Behavior scores than controls. For the Extraversion/Inhibitedness scale, adults with BPD produced significantly lower scores than adults with ADHD and controls. On the Conscientiousness/Compulsivity domains, Conscientiousness scores were lower for both disorders, whereas low Compulsivity values were specific to adult ADHD.
  
  
  
  Our results suggest that patients with adult ADHD and BPD have distinguishable profiles of personality traits and personality pathology.
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK jlk1g11@soton.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koerting
authors.affiliation: University of Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pukrop
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ritter
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knowles
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Banzhaf
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gentschow
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vater
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Isabella
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Heuser
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colla
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roepke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D032763:Behavior Control / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000075384:Neuroticism; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires