Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment

Hengartner, Michael Pascal; von Wyl, Agnes; Tanis, Thachell; Halmi, Winter; Galynker, Igor; Cohen, Lisa J.

doi:10.1002/pmh.1297

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Title:	Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment
Authors:	Hengartner, Michael Pascal von Wyl, Agnes Tanis, Thachell Halmi, Winter Galynker, Igor Cohen, Lisa J.
DOI:	10.1002/pmh.1297
Published in:	Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour
Volume(Issue):	9
Issue:	3
Page(s):	195
Pages to:	207
Issue Date:	Jun-2015
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiley
ISSN:	1932-8621 1932-863X
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	616.8: Neurology, diseases of nervous system
Abstract:	This is the first study to link attachment to both severity of total DSM-IV personality disorder (PD) traits and domains of general personality dysfunction, using a sample of 72 inpatients from New York City. We assessed a measure of global PD severity and the core domains of personality functioning using the severity indices of personality problems (SIPP-118). Attachment was measured with the experience in close relationships-revised (ECR-R) and the relationship style questionnaire (RSQ). Global PD severity correlated most strongly with attachment anxiety (r = 0.65). Regression of the SIPP-118 domains on attachment produced models that accounted for a substantial proportion of variance in those scales (R2 ranging from 28.2 to 54.2%). SIPP-118 relational capacities were the strongest predictor of ECR-R avoidance (β = -0.88) and anxiety (β = -0.58), as well as RSQ secure (β = 0.53) and fearful (β = -0.65). In conclusion, insecure attachment strongly related to the severity of global PD traits and specifically to relational capacities, which are a higher-order domain of general personality dysfunction. These findings provide further evidence that interpersonal problems are at the core of PDs and that attachment could constitute an important mediator of the social dysfunction in persons with personality pathology.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2268
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Departement:	Applied Psychology
Organisational Unit:	Psychological Institute (PI)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Psychologie

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Hengartner, M. P., von Wyl, A., Tanis, T., Halmi, W., Galynker, I., & Cohen, L. J. (2015). Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 9(3), 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1297

Hengartner, M.P. et al. (2015) ‘Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment’, Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, 9(3), pp. 195–207. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1297.

M. P. Hengartner, A. von Wyl, T. Tanis, W. Halmi, I. Galynker, and L. J. Cohen, “Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment,” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 195–207, Jun. 2015, doi: 10.1002/pmh.1297.

HENGARTNER, Michael Pascal, Agnes VON WYL, Thachell TANIS, Winter HALMI, Igor GALYNKER und Lisa J. COHEN, 2015. Severity of personality disorders and domains of general personality dysfunction related to attachment. Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour. Juni 2015. Bd. 9, Nr. 3, S. 195–207. DOI 10.1002/pmh.1297

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, Agnes von Wyl, Thachell Tanis, Winter Halmi, Igor Galynker, and Lisa J. Cohen. 2015. “Severity of Personality Disorders and Domains of General Personality Dysfunction Related to Attachment.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour 9 (3): 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1297.

Hengartner, Michael Pascal, et al. “Severity of Personality Disorders and Domains of General Personality Dysfunction Related to Attachment.” Personality and Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Studies from Personality Dysfunction to Criminal Behaviour, vol. 9, no. 3, June 2015, pp. 195–207, https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1297.