title: Predicting personality disorder functioning styles by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality: a preliminary trial in healthy people and personality disorder patients.
abstract: Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be specifically associated with different personality disorder functioning styles.
  
  
  
  We therefore have invited 201 healthy volunteers and 67 personality disorder patients to undergo CADP, the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), and the Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP) tests.
  
  
  
  Patients scored significantly higher on PVP scale and all 11 PERM personality disorder functioning styles, as well as CADP Emotional and Unsocial traits. The PVP was significantly correlated with some CADP traits and PERM styles in both groups. In healthy volunteers, only one CADP trait, Unsocial, prominently predicted 11 PERM styles. By contrast in patients, CADP Intelligent predicted the PERM Narcissistic and Passive-Aggressive styles; CADP Emotional the PERM Paranoid, Borderline, and Histrionic styles; CADP Conscientious the PERM Obsessive-Compulsive style; CADP Unsocial the PERM Schizotypal, Antisocial, Narcissistic, Avoidant, Dependent, and Passive-Aggressive styles; CADP Agreeable the PERM Antisocial style.
  
  
  
  As a preliminary study, our results demonstrated that, in personality disorder patients, all five CADP traits were specifically associated with almost all 11 personality disorder functioning styles, indicating that CADP might be used as an aid to diagnose personality disorders in China.
authors: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
authors: Hongying
authors: H
authors: Fan
authors: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
authors: Qisha
authors: Q
authors: Zhu
authors: Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University College of Sciences, Hangzhou, China.
authors: Guorong
authors: G
authors: Ma
authors: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
authors: Chanchan
authors: C
authors: Shen
authors: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
authors: Bingren
authors: B
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/ School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China. drwangwei@zju.edu.cn.|Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University College of Sciences, Hangzhou, China. drwangwei@zju.edu.cn.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Chinese culture; Personality disorder patients; The Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP); The Parker Personality Measure (PERM)