title: How Do DSM-5 Personality Traits Align With Schema Therapy Constructs?
abstract: DSM-5 offers an alternative model of personality pathology that includes 25 traits. Although personality disorders are mostly treated with psychotherapy, the correspondence between DSM-5 traits and concepts in evidence-based psychotherapy has not yet been evaluated adequately. Suitably, schema therapy was developed for treating personality disorders, and it has achieved promising evidence. The authors examined associations between DSM-5 traits and schema therapy constructs in a mixed sample of 662 adults, including 312 clinical participants. Associations were investigated in terms of factor loadings and regression coefficients in relation to five domains, followed by specific correlations among all constructs. The results indicated conceptually coherent associations, and 15 of 25 traits were strongly related to relevant schema therapy constructs. Conclusively, DSM-5 traits may be considered expressions of schema therapy constructs, which psychotherapists might take advantage of in terms of case formulation and targets of treatment. In turn, schema therapy constructs add theoretical understanding to DSM-5 traits.
authors: Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark.|Psychiatric Clinic Slagelse, Region Zealand, Denmark.
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Bach
authors: Murdoch University, Australia.
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Lee
authors: University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: Erik Lykke
authors: EL
authors: Mortensen
authors: Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark.|University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: Erik
authors: E
authors: Simonsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*