title: Personality disorders among patients with panic disorder and individuals with high anxiety sensitivity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  No studies have been found that compared the psychopathology features, including personality disorders, of Panic Disorder (PD) and Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (PDA), and a nonclinical sample with anxiety vulnerability.
  
  
  METHODS
  The total sample included 152 participants, 52 in the PD/PDA, 45 in the high anxiety sensitivity (AS) sample, and 55 in the nonclinical sample. The participants in PD/PDA sample were evaluated with the structured interview ADIS-IV. The Brief Symptom Inventory and the MCMI-III were used in all three samples.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistically significant differences were found between the PD/PDA and the nonclinical sample in all MCMI-III scales except for antisocial and compulsive. No significant differences were found between PD/PDA and the sample with high scores in AS. Phobic Anxiety and Paranoid Ideation were the only scales where there were significant differences between the PD/PDA sample and the high AS sample.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings showed that people who scored high on AS, despite not having a diagnosis of PD/PDA, were similar in regard to psychopathology features and personality to individuals with PD/PDA.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Zaragoza.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Osma
authors.forename: Azucena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Palacios
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Botella
authors.forename: Juan Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Barrada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D063189:Symptom Assessment; D013694:Temperament; D055815:Young Adult