Personality differences within a diagnostic entity: Types of phobia in men and women |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;2. Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway;3. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;1. Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, United States;2. Alliance Clinical Associates, Wheaton, IL, United States;3. Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, United States |
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| Abstract: | Often, psychodiagnostic entities, like phobias, have been assumed implicitly to be homogeneous with respect to important personality variables. Three types of phobic women, agoraphobics, social phobics and simple phobics (n = 15 per type) were compared among themselves and with non-phobics on a variety of personality characteristics. The same was done with phobic men (respectively, n = 12, n = 11, n = 8). The results showed that types of phobia differ with regard to several personality characteristics; for women differently than for men. Implications for theory building, diagnosis, and therapy are discussed. On the whole, a personality-oriented approach to psychopathology is advocated. |
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