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. 2021 Sep 21;12:671243. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671243

TABLE 2.

Expressions of personality spectra across trait domains.

Trait domains Expressive emotion conduct Interpersonal Cognitive style Self-image Content Dynamics Architecture Mood/temperament
Schizoid Impassive Unengaged Impoverished Complacent Meagre Intellectualisation Undifferentiated Apathetic
Avoidant Fretful Aversive Distracted Alienated Vexatious Fantasy Fragile Anguished
Melancholic Disconsolate Defenseless Fatalistic Worthless Forsaken Asceticism Depleted Woeful
Dependent Puerile Submissive Naive Inept Immature Introjection Inchoate Pacific
Histrionic Dramatic Attention-seeking Flight Gregarious Shallow Dissociation Disjointed Fickle
Turbulent Impetuous High-spirited Scattered Exalted Piecemeal Magnification Unsteady Mercurial
Narcissistic Haughty Exploitive Expansive Admirable Contrived Rationalisation Spurious Insouciant
Antisocial Impulsive Irresponsible Non-conforming Autonomous Debased Acting out Unruly Callous
Sadistic Precipitate Abrasive Dogmatic Combative Pernicious Isolation Eruptive Hostile
Compulsive Disciplined Courteous Constricted Reliable Concealed Reaction formation Compartmentalised Solemn
Negativistic Embittered Contrary Cynical Discontented Fluctuating Displacement Divergent Irritable
Masochistic Abstinent Acquiescent Diffident Undeserving Discredited Exaggeration Inverted Dysphoric
Schizotypal Peculiar Secretive Autistic Estranged Chaotic Undoing Fragmented Distraught
Borderline Spasmodic Paradoxical Vacillating Uncertain Incompatible Regression Split Labile
Paranoid Defensive Provocative Mistrustful Inviolable Unalterable Projection Inelastic Irascible

Adapted from Grossman (2015).