This webservice is supplementary material to a manuscript which is currently in preparation / revision. The study combines findings from earlier studies and meta-analyses in order to identify a model on how to 'translate' the Five Factor Model into the taxonomy of Personality Disorders. It aims at demonstrating how symptoms of personality disorders can be predicted from a person's Big Five profile. The pilot webservice calculates thirty most salient adjectives to a given Big Five Personality Profile using a study on 432 English adjectives by Goldman (1990). The webservice also calculates which personality disorder is prototypically most similar to the personality profile based on a vector model (using a meta-analysis by Samuel & Widiger, 2008). The probabilities shown here do not represent clinical diagnoses for a person, however they may be useful to identify potential areas of maladaptive personality traits on which clinicians or researchers may want to follow up.
Please enter the FFM profile of a given person you have in mind using the sliders on the left. The default setting refers to a person who shows little evidence for a personality disorder.
Note. Euclidean distance can hardly be visualized in a five-dimensional space. Hence, the graph shows euclidean distance on two summarized areas of personality: Extraversion and Agreeableness (interpersonal circumplex) and Conscientiousness, Opennenss, Neuroticism [structural Spheroplex]. The red + shows the position of the FFM profile as entered using the sliders.
Note. The orange line indicates a percentile of 84% (z=1), the red line a percentile of 95%. Values exceeding the orange line can be considered above the average in a general population. 'Normal' refers to the inverse vector to all personality disorders, i.e. the 'healthy opposite direction' or an estimate of the likelihood not to be diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Note. 5-dimensional vectors cannot be easily visualized. This tool offers the possibility to select two dimensions and show how the Big Five profile (using the sliders on the left) compares to personality disorder mean scores on these dimensions according to a meta-analysis by Samuel and Widiger (2008). Blue adjectives represent those adjectives according to Goldman (1990) which are most representative of the given Circumplex quadrant.