Samoocena w zaburzeniach osobowości

Ewa Trzebińska , Katarzyna Balsam

Abstract

Two studies examined the relationship between personality disorders and self-esteem. In both studies, self-descriptive measurement of all the ten personality disorders classifies in DSM-IV-TR was carried out. Explicit self-esteem was measured in Study 1, and implicit self-esteem in Study 2. The participants were students of Warsaw's universities. The result revealed that all personality disorders have a characteristic relationship with explicit and implicit self-esteem. The relationship is most unambiguoug in the case of narcissistic, histrionic, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, which turned out to be positively related to both forms of self-esteem. The symptoms of the remaining personality disorders are negatively related to explicit self-esteem, and two of them - schizotypal and antisocial - are related to high implicit self-esteem. The discussion focuses on the mechanism of possible self-esteem malfunction in personality disorders.