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A source, a cascade, a schizoid: A heuristic proposal from The Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders
- Source :
- Development and Psychopathology. 22:867-881
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010.
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Abstract
- It is argued that personality pathology represents the final emergent product of a complex interaction of underlying neurobehavioral systems as well as environment inputs. A number of factors may be involved in the developmental pathway and a cascading of effects is plausible, although a unifying cascade for all personality disorders is not likely. The present study suggests a possible cascade relevant to one personality disorder: schizoid personality disorder in emerging adulthood. In brief, it is hypothesized that the absence of a relationship characterized by a rich degree of psychological proximal process in early childhood, which is associated with nurturance and the facilitation of more complex development, predicts impairment in the actualization of the affiliation system (i.e., that system that facilitates interpersonal connectedness and social bonds in human beings and is under substantial genetic influence), and this impairment in the affiliation system predicts the appearance of schizoid personality disorder symptoms in emerging adulthood (late teens/early 20s), which persists over time into emerging adulthood. The impairment in the affiliation system is argued to proceed through childhood sociality as reflected in temperament on through adult personality as reflected in communal positive emotion. Furthermore, it is also hypothesized that the relationship between proximal processes and the affiliation system maintains irrespective of other childhood temperament factors that might adversely impact early parent/caregiver and child relations. The data for a preliminary illustration of this possible cascade are drawn from The Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders, which is a prospective, multiwave study of personality disorders, personality, and temperament in a large sample of adults drawn from a nonclinical population.
- Subjects :
- Male
Self-transcendence
Personality development
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New York
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Models, Psychological
Absorption (psychology)
Personality Assessment
Personality Disorders
Developmental psychology
Young Adult
Sex Factors
Schizoid personality disorder
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Personality
Longitudinal Studies
Parent-Child Relations
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Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Personality pathology
medicine.disease
Personality disorders
Psychiatry and Mental health
Female
Personality Assessment Inventory
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14692198 and 09545794
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Development and Psychopathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2f166ffb650dfa66e0e2d5e2ce9f2a3d