DSM-5 personality trait domains

Question 1

Negative affectivity vs. emotional stability

Answer 1

Frequent and intense experiences of high levels of a wide range of negative emotions (e.g., anxiety,
depression) and their behavioral (e.g., self-harm) and interpersonal (e.g.,
dependency) manifestations.

Question 2

Detachment vs. extraversion

Answer 2

Avoidance of socioemotional experience, including both withdrawal from interpersonal interactions
(ranging from casual, daily interactions to friendships to intimate relationships) and restricted affective
experience and expression, particularly limited hedonic capacity.

Question 3

Antagonism vs. agreeablieness

Answer 3

Behaviors that put the individual at odds with other people, including an exaggerated sense of
self-importance and a concomitant expectation of special treatment, as well as a callous antipathy
toward others, encompassing both an unawareness of others’ needs and feelings and a readiness to use
others in the service of self-enhancement

Question 4

Disinhibition vs. conscientiousness

Answer 4

Orientation toward immediate gratification, leading to impulsive behaviour driven by current thoughts, feelings, and external stimuli, without regard for past learning/consideration of future consequence

Question 5

Psychoticism vs. lucidity

Answer 5

Exhibiting a range of culturally incongruent odd, eccentric, or unusual behaviours and cognitions. incl. both process (perception/dissociation) and content (beliefs)