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ArticleJournal of intellectual disability research : JIDR2025

Personality Trait Profiles in People With Mild Intellectual Disability: A Comparative Study.

Renate A van der Heijden, Paul T van der Heijden, Hubert P L M Korzilius, Han Berghuis, Robert Didden

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Renate A van der HeijdenCentre for Psychiatry and Mild Intellectual Disability, GGZ Oost Brabant, Boekel, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1459-4615
Paul T van der HeijdenBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Hubert P L M KorziliusInstitute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Han BerghuisNPI, Centre for Personality Disorders, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
Robert DiddenCentre for Psychiatry and Mild Intellectual Disability, GGZ Oost Brabant, Boekel, The Netherlands.

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GGZ Oost Brabant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPersonality assessment in people with mild intellectual disability (MID) is difficult due to their communication difficulties and lack of reliable instruments. In addition, characteristics of maladaptive personality traits may be attributed to the intellectual disability. As a result, little is known about (maladaptive) personality traits in people with MID. The aim of this study was to explore maladaptive personality traits of people with MID and compare them to those of two comparison groups.

methodsMaladaptive personality traits of people with MID referred to specialised mental health care (n = 75) were compared with those of people with borderline intellectual functioning referred to specialised mental health care (BIF, n = 69) and those of people with average educational levels from general mental health care (AVE, n = 73) using the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Short Form.

resultsPeople with MID scored higher on Affective Lability, Anxiousness, Identity Problems, Insecure Attachment and Suspiciousness and lower on Narcissism and Social Avoidance compared to the people with AVE. No differences in personality trait scores were found between people with MID and people with BIF, except for a lower score on Social Avoidance in those with MID. Almost all differences demonstrated small effect sizes. DISCUSSION: Maladaptive personality traits of people with MID and comorbid psychopathology are of similar severity compared to those of people with BIF and comorbid psychopathology or people in mental health care with average educational levels. This study emphasises that clinicians look beyond the intellectual and adaptive disabilities when assessing for mental health problems in people with MID, while meeting their needs when it comes to the treatment of these problems.

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Intellectual DisabilityPersonalityPersonality DisordersAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPersonality AssessmentSeverity of Illness IndexYoung Adultbehavioural measurement methodsborderline intellectual functioninghealth inequitiesintellectual disabilitymental healthpersonality disorders

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PMID40776389
PMCPMC12580471

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