de Bonis M, Charlot V, Hardy P, Féline A
U.F.R. Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1988 May-Jun;146(7):593-607.
The present study analyses the internal organization of self concepts in a woman who meets the DSM III criteria of multiple personality disorder. The aim of this single case study, was to assess the personal identity of this patient, the degree of internal coherence and the hierarchical structure of the descriptions of self and others in the frame of cognitive theories of personality. After the clinical observation, the experimental procedure is presented. It consists in asking the patient to describe her different roles or alternated personalities (N = 12), as well as the target persons of her familial and social environment (N = 8) on the basis of a preestablished list of adjectives (extracted from the 16 P.F. Cattell sphere of personality). The factorial analysis of the contingency table: traits attributed x persons described shows a Guttman like hierarchical structure. Similarities and differences between the descriptions can be ordered on a unidimensional order, the multiple roles or personalities being no more complex nor simple than the target persons. The present results have been discussed in reference to cognitive theories of personality and their utility in studying personal identity and multiple personality.
本研究分析了一名符合《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版多重人格障碍标准的女性自我概念的内部组织。这个单病例研究的目的是，在人格认知理论的框架内，评估该患者的个人身份、内部连贯程度以及自我和他人描述的层次结构。临床观察之后，介绍了实验程序。该程序要求患者根据预先确定的形容词列表（从卡特尔16种人格因素范围中提取），描述她的不同角色或交替人格（N = 12），以及她家庭和社会环境中的目标人物（N = 8）。列联表的因子分析：所归因的特质x所描述的人物显示出类似古特曼的层次结构。描述之间的异同可以按一维顺序排列，多重角色或人格并不比目标人物更复杂或更简单。本文参照人格认知理论及其在研究个人身份和多重人格方面的效用对目前的结果进行了讨论。
