The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

• Authors: Steven C. Hertler
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The five factor trait of conscientiousness is a supertrait, denoting on one hand a pattern of excessive labor, rigidity, orderliness and compulsivity, and on the other hand a pattern of strict rectitude, scrupulosity, dutifulness and morality. In both respects the obsessive-compulsive personality is conscientious; indeed, it has been labeled a disorder of extreme conscientiousness (Widiger et al., 2009). Antisocial personality disorder, in the present paper, is described as occupying the opposite end of the conscientiousness continuum. The antisocial is impulsive rather than compulsive, illicit rather than licit, and furtive rather than forthright.After clinically comparing the obsessive and antisocial personalities, the present paper invokes evolutionary theory to explain their resultant behavioral, ideological, political and demographic differences.

Keywords

EN

Obsessive; Antisocial; Personality; Conscientiousness; Evolution; Society

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-63

Contributors

author

Steven C. Hertler

• The College of New Rochelle, Department of Psychology. 29 Castle Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10805