Impact of personality functioning and pathological traits on mental wellbeing of older patients with personality disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although personality disorders are common and consequential, they are largely ignored in geriatric mental healthcare. We examined the relative contributions of different aspects of personality disorders and comorbid mental disorders to the impairment of mental wellbeing in older adults.

Methods

Baseline data were used of 138 patients who participated in a randomized controlled trial on schema therapy for geriatric mental health outpatients with a full or subthreshold cluster B or C personality disorder. Personality was assessed according to both the categorical and dimensional model of DSM-5. Aspects of mental wellbeing assessed were; psychological distress, positive mental health, subjective health, and life satisfaction. The current study uses baseline data of t

SUBMITTER: Veenstra MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8944148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature