Relationship of NEO-PI to personality styles and severity of trauma in chronic PTSD victims

✍ Scribed by Lee Hyer; Lorraine Braswell; Bill Albrecht; Stephanie Boyd; Patrick Boudewyns; Suzanne Talbert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10221

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The relationship of the NEO‐PI to personality disorders was evaluated in a clinical population. Eighty subjects with post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were given this measure, along with the MCMI‐II and PTSD and combat scales. Two questions were addressed: (1) What is the relationship of NEO‐PI domains and facets to personality disorders?; and (2) What is this scale's relationship to PTSD problems? Results support previous studies that employed a clinical population, but with lower correlation coefficients. For the most part, then, the NEO‐PI domains and facets correlated in expected ways with the MCMI‐II. On PTSD measures, N accounted for the majority of the variance, but other domains were entered when independent regression equations were calculated to account for different personality disorders. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.