Montes SA, Sanchez RO. The underlying structure of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5): a general factor of personality psychopathology.
CURRENT ISSUES IN PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY 2023;
12:79-90. [PMID:
38807698 PMCID:
PMC11129047 DOI:
10.5114/cipp/163182]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The psychopathology of personality is currently undergoing a paradigm shift from a categorical to a dimensional approach. This work aimed to study the underlying structure of pathological personality traits of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). For this purpose, the internal structure of a version of the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) was examined by a confirmatory factor analysis. This version assesses the five higher-order pathological personality domains (negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism) and the 25 lower-order pathological personality facets through a reduced number of items. Four alternative models were compared: five-factor oblique; second-order (five first-order factors and one second-order factor); bifactor (five specific factors and a general factor), and one-factor.
PARTICIPANTS AND PROCEDURE
We worked with an Argentinean sample of N = 525 subjects from the general population who answered the Argentine version of the PID-5.
RESULTS
The five-factor model was slightly superior to the second order model, and the bifactor model presented the best fit.
CONCLUSIONS
These findings, while preliminary, suggest that the PID-5 facets could reflect five specific pathological personality traits (which correspond to AMPD domains) but also a general factor (which would reflect a general propensity for psychopathology).
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