THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EYSENCKS PEN MODEL OF PERSONALITY AND TRAITSDELINEATING PERSONALITY-DISORDER

An obliquely rotated principal components analysis of the EPQ-R and a measure of personality disorder, the Dimensional Assessment of Persona lity Problems (DAPP-BQ) was conducted on 200 general population subjec ts. This yielded a five factor solution, in which three factors were d efined by EPQ-R scales. The EPQ Neuroticism scale loads on a factor of general psychological distress; the Extraversion scale loads on a fac tor describing antisocial personality; and the Psychoticism and Lie sc ales jointly capture aspects of conduct disorder. Stepwise multiple re gression analysis also indicated substantial relationships between the EPQ-R scales and several DBPP-BQ scales. The relationships obtained b etween measures of normal and abnormal personality lend additional sup port for the adoption of a dimensional model of personality disorder. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.