Normative Data for PID-5 Domains, Facets, and Personality Disorder Composites From a Representative Sample and Comparison to Community and Clinical Samples

The introduction of the alternative model of personality disorders in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Model of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) represented a substantive change in how personality disorders (PDs) are diagnosed. One barrier to its adoption (among several) in clinical practice, however, is a lack of information as to what constitutes an elevated score on the 25 domains and facets that comprise Criterion B. Unique sets of facets can be configured to assess any 1 of 6 PDs retained in the alternative model of personality disorders; each of these facets can in turn be added to create a PD sum score. In the current study, using the Personality Inventory for Diagnostic and Statistical Model of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (Krueger et al., 2012), we report mean scores using this instrument that align with 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 SD elevations for the 25 facets, five domains, and six PD composites on the basis of Krueger and colleagues’ (2012) representative sample and compare these with those obtained from a community and a clinical sample. These normative data may be useful to clinicians in determining whether a client has elevated scores on pathological personality domains, facets, or PDs.