Openness to experience Personality disorder

at least 3 aspects of openness experience relevant understanding personality disorders: cognitive distortions, lack of insight , impulsivity. problems related high openness can cause problems social or professional functioning excessive fantasising, peculiar thinking, diffuse identity, unstable goals , nonconformity demands of society.

high openness characteristic schizotypal personality disorder (odd , fragmented thinking), narcissistic personality disorder (excessive self-valuation) , paranoid personality disorder (sensitivity external hostility). lack of insight (shows low openness) characteristic personality disorders , explain persistence of maladaptive behavioral patterns.

the problems associated low openness difficulties adapting change, low tolerance different worldviews or lifestyles, emotional flattening, alexithymia , narrow range of interests. rigidity obvious aspect of (low) openness among personality disorders , shows lack of knowledge of 1 s emotional experiences. characteristic of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder; opposite of known impulsivity (here: aspect of openness shows tendency behave unusually or autistically) characteristic of schizotypal , borderline personality disorders.