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Formalising and Testing Kernberg's Theory of Personality Organisation

2026-03-28

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<p>In this paper, I formalize Kernberg’s theory of ‘personality organisation’ using a (non-linear) latent manifold model. Under this model, personality pathology is conceptualized as a general dimension of severity that defines the coordinates under which particular personality organisations live. After illustrating how this model operates, I test it against dominant alternatives (i.e., bifactor modeling), showing...

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10.31234/osf.io/kq5dg_v1
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