Personality Inventory for DSM-5, PID-5-SF

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The PID-5 assesses 25 maladaptive personality trait facets that map onto the DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders.

Negative Affect Domain. Reflects tendency to experience negative emotions intensely and frequently.

Facets:

• Emotional Lability: Unstable emotional experiences and frequent mood changes.

• Anxiousness: Intense feelings of nervousness, tenseness, or panic in reaction to various situations; frequent worry about negative outcomes.

• Separation Insecurity: Fears of rejection by and/or separation from significant others.

Detachment Domain. Reflects tendency toward social isolation and reduced affective experience.

Facets:

• Withdrawal: Preference for being alone; avoidance of social contacts and activities.

• Anhedonia: Lack of enjoyment from life's experiences; inability to experience pleasure.

• Intimacy Avoidance: Avoidance of close romantic relationships and interpersonal attachments.

Antagonism Domain. Reflects tendencies toward interpersonal conflict, exploitation, and self-importance.

Facets:

• Manipulativeness: Use of subterfuge to influence or control others; use of seduction, charm, or ingratiation to achieve ends.

• Deceitfulness: Dishonesty and fraudulence; misrepresentation of self; embellishment or fabrication when relating events.

• Grandiosity: Belief that one is superior to others and deserves special treatment; self-centeredness.

Disinhibition Domain. Reflects tendencies toward impulsive behavior and lack of behavioral restraint.

Facets:

• Irresponsibility: Disregard for financial and other obligations; lack of respect for agreements and promises.

• Impulsivity: Acting on the spur of the moment in response to immediate stimuli without plan or consideration of outcomes.

• Distractibility: Difficulty concentrating and focusing on tasks; attention easily diverted by extraneous stimuli.

Psychoticism Domain. Reflects tendencies toward unusual and bizarre experiences and behaviors.

Facets:

• Unusual Beliefs and Experiences: Belief that one has unusual abilities; unusual perceptual experiences.

• Eccentricity: Odd, unusual, or bizarre behavior or appearance.

• Perceptual Dysregulation: Odd or unusual perceptual experiences including depersonalization and derealization.

Additional Facets (contributing to multiple domains):

• Attention Seeking: Engaging in behavior designed to attract notice.

• Callousness: Lack of empathy or concern for others; ruthlessness in pursuit of goals.

• Depressivity: Frequent feelings of being down, miserable, and hopeless; low self-worth.

• Hostility: Persistent or frequent angry feelings; irritability in response to slights.

• Perseveration: Persistence at tasks or a particular way of doing things long after behavior has ceased to be functional.

• Restricted Affectivity: Limited range and intensity of emotional expression; constricted emotional experience.

• Rigid Perfectionism: Rigid insistence on everything being flawless and perfect.

• Risk Taking: Engagement in dangerous and potentially self-damaging activities.

• Submissiveness: Adaptation of one's behavior to the interests and desires of others.

• Suspiciousness: Expectations of interpersonal harm; doubts about loyalty of others.