TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality disorders and adult attachment dimensions in a mixed psychiatric sample
T2 - A multivariate study
AU - Fossati, Andrea
AU - Feeney, Judith A.
AU - Donati, Deborah
AU - Donini, Michela
AU - Novella, Liliana
AU - Bagnato, Maria
AU - Carretta, Ilaria
AU - Leonardi, Barbara
AU - Mirabelli, Sara
AU - Maffei, Cesare
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-200301000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00005053-200301000-00006
M3 - Article
C2 - 12544597
AN - SCOPUS:0037247061
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 191
SP - 30
EP - 37
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 1
ER -