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  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Defining psychological health is crucial for understanding well-being and dysfunction.
  • Previous models of healthy personality have lacked broad expert consensus.
  • The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) provides a comprehensive framework for personality traits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish an expert-consensus model of the psychologically healthy individual.
  • To define healthy personality traits within the 30 facets and 5 domains of the NEO-PI-R.
  • To develop and validate a "healthy personality index" based on this model.

Main Methods:

  • Expert consensus was used to define healthy personality profiles across NEO-PI-R facets.
  • A healthy personality prototype was generated based on expert agreement.
  • Over 3,000 individuals' NEO-PI-R profiles were matched against the prototype to create a healthy personality index.

Main Results:

  • Healthy personality functioning is characterized by high openness to feelings, positive emotions, straightforwardness, and low neuroticism.
  • The expert-generated healthy profile correlated negatively with pathological and positively with normative personality functioning.
  • The healthy personality index demonstrated good reliability, stability, and heritability.

Conclusions:

  • The expert-consensus model provides a robust definition of healthy personality traits.
  • Individuals scoring high on the healthy personality index exhibit psychological adjustment, self-esteem, and resilience.
  • This research offers implications for personality theory, clinical assessment, and interventions aimed at promoting psychological health.