Self-concept correlates of the personality disorders

This study investigated the extent to which the DSM personality disorder di mensions are associated with discrete patterns of self-concept. Participant s were 366 men and women who were receiving mental health services and who completed the Wisconsin Personality Disorders Inventory to assess the perso nality disorders and Benjamin's INTREX questionnaire to describe their "typ ical" self-concepts. Although there was some overlap between categories, mo st were associated with fairly distinct patterns of self-concept. The disor ders also clustered together in meaningful ways along the major axes of Ben jamin's interpersonal model of the self-concept.