Deconstructing Individual Differences in Long-Term Personality Disorder and Trait Change

Converging lines of evidence suggest that personality pathology comprises shared and unique impairments. We leveraged a large clinical sample ( N = 505) and a person-centered statistical approach, ipsative change analysis, to decompose individuals’ multidimensional profiles at two time points into a metric that captures change in the elevation of the profile (i.e., impairment severity) and change in configuration of the dimensions in the profile...