Annie Jordan

For her honours thesis, Annie investigated how the maladaptive personality traits Antagonism, Detachment, and Negative Affectivity relate to interpersonal sensitivities — the specific behaviours of others most likely to cause emotional distress. Combining clinical and general personality measures via confirmatory factor analysis in a sample of 413, and using the Structural Summary Method, she mapped the distinct interpersonal-sensitivity signature of each trait and found the relationships were largely linear rather than curvilinear — underscoring the need for measures that capture a broader range of personality functioning.