Personality disorders and Interpersonal behavior: a dimensional analysis based on the Interpersonal Circumplex

Abstract

The circumplex model of Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS, Wiggins, 1996) is an integrative model which allows research into the interpersonal contents associated with the categories of personality disorders, through the substantive analysis of the interpersonal contents of these psychopathological categories. This study purports to explore the relationship between the Interpersonal Circumplex of J.S. Wiggins and the scales of personality disorders in clinical subjects and taking advantage of the geometrical properties of circle variables. We used the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II) to evaluate the scales of personality disorders and the IAS as markers of interpersonal space. We found that many personality disorders scales measured the MCMI-II could be identified in the IAS circum-plex.