Title of article
PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND ADULT ATTACHMENT DIMENSIONS IN A MIXED PSYCHIATRIC SAMPLE: A MULTIVARIATE STUDY
Author/Authors
Ph.D.، ANDREA FOSSATI, M.D., نويسنده , , Ph.D.، JUDITH A. FEENEY, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، DEBORAH DONATI, M.D., نويسنده , , Ph.D.، MICHELA DONINI, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، LILIANA NOVELLA, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، MARIA BAGNATO, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، ILARIA CARRETTA, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، BARBARA LEONARDI, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، SARA MIRABELLI, نويسنده , , Ph.D.، CESARE MAFFEI, M.D., نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
Pages
-2
From page
3
To page
0
Abstract
The associations between personality disorders and adult attachment dimensions were assessed in a sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric subjects. Canonical correlation analysis showed that two sets of moderately correlated canonical variates explained the correlations between personality disorders and adult attachment patterns. The first and second attachment variates closely resembled the avoidance and anxiety attachment dimensions, respectively. The first personality disorder variate was mainly characterized by avoidant, depressive, paranoid, and schizotypal personality disorders, whereas dependent, histrionic, and borderline personality disorders loaded on the second canonical variate. However, these linear combinations of personality disorders were different from those obtained from principal component analysis. The results extend previous studies linking personality disorders and attachment patterns and suggest the importance of focusing on specific constellations of symptoms associated with dimensions of insecurity.
Keywords
Alzheimers disease , Downs syndrome , magnetic resonance imaging
Journal title
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Serial Year
2003
Journal title
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Record number
67927
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