Citation

Wilson S, Hopwood CJ, McGue M, Iacono WG. J. Res. Pers. 2019; 82: e103851.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103851

PMID

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Abstract

We first confirmed adolescents diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders (oppositional defiant, conduct disorder; n = 158) had lower constraint and higher negative emotionality, and greater psychiatric comorbidity and psychosocial dysfunction, relative to adolescents without (n = 755), in a population-based sample enriched for externalizing psychopathology (mean age = 17.90 years; 52% female). We then explored whether different personality types, defined by patterns of personality identified via latent profile analysis, were differently associated with clinical features in adolescents with a disruptive behavior disorder diagnosis. Four distinct personality types ("disinhibited," "high distress," "low distress," "positive") were meaningfully different from one another.

RESULTS highlight personality heterogeneity as a means of identifying individuals at greatest risk for the most deleterious forms of externalizing psychopathology.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescence; Disruptive behavior disorders; Externalizing psychopathology; Personality