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Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method. [1]
The five factor model has been shown to significantly predict all 10 personality disorder symptoms and outperform the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in the prediction of borderline, avoidant, and dependent personality disorder symptoms. [64]
Avoidance coping is measured via a self-reported questionnaire. Initially, the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was used, which is a 62-item questionnaire that assesses experiential avoidance, and thus avoidance coping, by measuring how many avoidant behaviors a person exhibits and how strongly they agree with each statement on a scale of 1–6. [1]
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This category of symptoms includes avoidant behaviors related to the trauma. ... experience post-traumatic stress disorder. Some depressive symptoms can be similar to those of PTSD, such as ...
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301.83 Borderline personality disorder; 301.50 Histrionic personality disorder; 301.81 Narcissistic personality disorder; Cluster C (anxious or fearful): 301.82 Avoidant personality disorder; 301.6 Dependent personality disorder; 301.4 Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder; NOS: 301.9 Personality disorder not otherwise specified
This personality disorder is a long-term condition [1] in which people depend on others to meet their emotional and physical needs. Dependent personality disorder is a cluster C personality disorder, [2] which is characterized by excessive fear and anxiety. It begins prior to early adulthood, and it is present in a variety of contexts and is ...