![]() Įmpirical evidence has established the relationships between normal and disordered personality traits, for instance, between the normal personality traits measured through the five-factor model such as the NEO-PI-R and the clinically defined personality disorders in the general and clinical populations. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the CADP traits were correlated respectively with the clinical symptoms of two types of bipolar disorder in Chinese culture. Since its development is based on the Chinese culture, CADP might be more suitable to measure the personality-related psychiatric disorders in China. Recently, a questionnaire based on the Chinese adjective pool, the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP), has been developed to measure the normal traits of Intelligent, Emotional, Conscientious, Unsocial and Agreeable, which are comparable to the traits measured by the five-factor model of personality, the Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness respectively. One might easily suspect that all the above-mentioned differences are associated either with the uniqueness in Chinese culture, or with the personality trait differences. ![]() found that the prevalence of personality disorders in China were higher than that in Western Europe but lower than that in USA. For instance, Chinese adolescents have experienced more depression than Japanese and Korean adolescents did, Chinese elders have the lowest standardized prevalence of sleep complaints amongst six developing countries such as Cuba, Mexico, and India, Chinese patients with major depressive disorder have lower suicidality tendency than those in South Korea, and Chinese bipolar disorder patients have a remarkably lower comorbidity of alcohol problems than the Western bipolar patients did. There is evidence that the psychiatric disorder patients display some clinical or epidemiological differences all over the world including China. ConclusionĪs a preliminary study, our results demonstrated that, in personality disorder patients, all five CADP traits were specifically associated with almost all 11 personality disorder functioning styles, indicating that CADP might be used as an aid to diagnose personality disorders in China. By contrast in patients, CADP Intelligent predicted the PERM Narcissistic and Passive-Aggressive styles CADP Emotional the PERM Paranoid, Borderline, and Histrionic styles CADP Conscientious the PERM Obsessive-Compulsive style CADP Unsocial the PERM Schizotypal, Antisocial, Narcissistic, Avoidant, Dependent, and Passive-Aggressive styles CADP Agreeable the PERM Antisocial style. In healthy volunteers, only one CADP trait, Unsocial, prominently predicted 11 PERM styles. ![]() The PVP was significantly correlated with some CADP traits and PERM styles in both groups. ![]() Patients scored significantly higher on PVP scale and all 11 PERM personality disorder functioning styles, as well as CADP Emotional and Unsocial traits. We therefore have invited 201 healthy volunteers and 67 personality disorder patients to undergo CADP, the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), and the Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP) tests. ![]() One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be specifically associated with different personality disorder functioning styles. Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. ![]()
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