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Personality-Related Problems In Living: An Empirical Approach, Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Personality-Related Problems In Living: An Empirical Approach, Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
Research has suggested that the Five Factor Model (FFM) is useful in describing personality pathology as well as personality traits. However, there appears to be disproportionate implications of the five domains for problems in living. Previous empirical research concerning the differential direction and magnitude of the relationship of the FFM domains to problems in living and personality disorder symptomatology has perhaps been limited in part by the use of a measure of the FFM that itself includes a disproportionate representation of maladaptive personality functioning across the domains. The current study also tests the hypothesis that the relationship of the FFM …