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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"normal personality"”.
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Using Item Response Theory to Bridge the Measurement Gap Between Normal Personality and Psychopathy
… on whether psychopathy is an extreme variant of normal personality or whether it is a qualitatively distinct disorder. Typical measures of normal personality focus on adaptive variants of traits, whereas measures of psychopathy were designed to assess maladaptive variants. Presumably neither type …
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The Development of a Computer Adaptive Test Of the Five Factor Model of Personality: Applications and Extensions
… converged upon the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality as constituting a comprehensive taxonomy of normal personality functioning. A weakness common to all personality inventories is excessive length, which can result in examinee fatigue, and ultimately, poor data quality. Computer adaptive …
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The impact of pre-treatment identification of personality style and personality disorder symptoms on psychotherapy outcomes in a training clinic
… of administering a pre-treatment, dimensional personality assessment to clients seeking treatment at university-based counseling centers, a multi-phase study was conducted. This study sought to replicate the results of a recent study conducted by Ryder, Costa Jr., and Bagby (2007) regarding the …
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Further Investigation of the Factor Structure of the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Search for Moderator Variables
… controversial, the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality has remained prominent in normal personality research. Previous studies involving the FFM of personality have failed to examine individual differences that could moderate the number of factors in the FFM. This study investigated two such …
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… both with other psychiatric disorders and with normal personality types. At the cognitive level, groups of people with autistic disorder can be differentiated from people without the disorder by their ability to reason about beliefs and knowledge (Theory of Mind) and by tests of visual …
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Using the HEXACO to Capture Psychopathy: Development and Initial Validation of the Power Proxies of Psychopathic Traits
Psychopathy, though often considered an abnormal personality construct, has been repeatedly found to be related to “normal” personality traits, and the HEXACO model of personality is particularly capable of capturing the “dark” personality variance integral to the construct. Additionally, while …
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Comparison Of Four Models For Predicting Person Reliability
… were compared using test-retest responses to personality items relatively neutral in desirability and measuring normal personality content. Study 2 focussed on the role of item characteristics. Three models, the two based on item characteristics and one on threshold theory, were compared using …
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Personality correlates of resident assistant effectiveness
… to determine the relationships between selected personality charac teristics and other predictors, and resident assistant effectiveness. Procedures: The sample included eight male and eleven female volunteers selected for RA positions at Drake University in Spring 1981. Predictors were …