RELATIONS OF 5-FACTOR MODEL ANTAGONISM FACETS WITH PERSONALITY-DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY

The Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM) has been used to conceptual ize personality disorders as maladaptive variants of normal personalit y traits. This study assessed the convergence of 6 lower order traits, or facets, of FFM agreeableness versus antagonism (trust, straightfor wardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness) with a ntisocial, borderline, narcissistic, paranoid, and passive-aggressive personality traits. Interview-based scores for all of the antagonism f acets except compliance demonstrated the expected relations with these personality disorder traits. Results for self-reported facet scores w ere less clearly supportive, only yielding convergence for straightfor wardness and altruism with respect to antisocial traits. It is suggest ed that future investigations of the FFM, or other normal personality trait models, and personality disorder symptomatology include analyses at the lower order trait level.