Personality & Psychopathology Lab
Recent & upcoming research projects
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Components of Regulating Emotions
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Development of personalized mobile interventions for problematic behaviors
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Role of emotion dysregulation in binge eating
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Impact of mood induction on personality fluctuation
Measures
These measures are free to use. If you'd like, you may email us at osupersonalitylab@gmail.com if you have used or plan to use any of the measures in a research study.
Five Factor Borderline Inventory
Selected Publications
Assessment of personality and personality pathology
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Bornovalova, M. A., Carragher, N., Clark, L.A., Corona Espinosa, A., Jonas, K., Keyes, K. M., Lynam, D. R., Michelini, G.,
Miller, J. D., Min, J.*, Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Samuel, D. B., Tackett, J. L., & Watts, A. (2022) HiTOP assessment of Externalizing Antagonism and Disinhibition. Assessment, 29, 34-45.
Min, J.*, Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Widiger, T. A. (2021). The Development of the Informant Five-Factor Borderline Inventory.
Assessment. 28, 1334-1344.
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Helle, A. C.*, DeShong, H. L.*, Baraldi, A. N., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2018). The five factor borderline inventory: Behavioral outcomes across time. Psychological Assessment, 30, 43-61.
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DeShong, H.L.*, Helle, A.C.*, & Mullins-Sweatt, S.N. (2016). Unmasking Cleckley’s psychopathy: Assessing historical case studies.
Personality and Mental Health, 10, 142-151.
DeShong, H. L.*, Mullins-Sweatt, S.N., Muller, J. D., Widiger, T. A., & Lynam, D. R. (2016). Development of a short form of the five factor
borderline inventory. Assessment, 23, 342-352.
DeShong, H. L.*, Lengel, G. J.*, Sauer-Zavala, S. E., O’Meara, M.† & Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2015). Construct validity of the Five-
Factor Borderline Inventory. Assessment, 22, 319-331.
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Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Edmundson, M. E., Sauer-Zavala, S. E., Lynam, D. R., Miller, J. D., & Widiger, T. A. (2012). Five-factor measure of
borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 475-487.
Clinical utility and applications of personality traits
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Hopwood, C. J., Chmielewski, M., Meyer, N. A.*, Min, J.*, Helle, A. C., & Walgren, M. D. (2020). Treatment of personality
pathology through the lens of the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: Developing a research agenda. Personality and Mental Health, 14, 123-141
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Lengel, G. J.* & Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2017). The importance and acceptability of general and maladaptive personality trait computerized
assessment feedback. Psychological Assessment, 29, 1-12.
Lengel, G. J.*, Helle, A. C.*, DeShong, H. L.*, Meyer, N. A.*, (2016). Translational applications of general personality for the
conceptualization and treatment of psychopathology. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 23, 288-308.
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Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Lengel, G. J.*, & DeShong, H.L.* (2016). The importance of considering clinical utility in the construction of a
diagnostic manual. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 133-155.
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Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. & Lengel, G. J.* (2012). Clinical utility of the five-factor model of personality disorder. Journal of Personality, 80, 1615-
1639.
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Bernstein, D. P., & Widiger, T. A. (2012). Retention or deletion of personality disorder diagnoses for DSM-5: An expert
consensus approach. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26, 689-703.
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. & Widiger, T. A. (2011). Clinicians’ judgments of the utility of the DSM-IV and Five-Factor models for personality
disordered patients. Journal of Personality Disorders, 25, 463-477.
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. & Widiger, T. A. (2010). Personality-related problems in living: An empirical approach. Personality Disorders: Theory,
Research, and Treatment, 1, 230-238.
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Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Smit, V., Verheul, R. Oldham, J., & Widiger, T. A. (2009). Dimensions of personality: Clinicians’ perspectives. Canadian
Journal of Psychiatry, 54, 247-259.
Maladaptive problems related to personality pathology
Lengel, G. J.*, DeShong, H.L.*, & Mullins-Sweatt, S.N. (2016). Impulsivity and nonsuicidal self-injury: Examining the role of affect
manipulation. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 38, 101-112.
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DeShong, H.L*, Tucker, R. P., O'Keefe, V. M., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Wingate, L. R. (2015). Five factor model traits as a predictor of suicidal
ideation and interpersonal suicide risk in a college sample. Psychiatry Research, 226, 217-223.
Tucker, R. P., O’Keefe, V. M., Cole, A. B., Rhoades-Kerswill, S., Hollingsworth, D. W., Helle, A.*, DeShong, H. L.*, Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., &
Wingate, L. R. (2014). Mindfulness tempers the impact of personality on suicidal ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 68, 229-233.
Lengel, G. J.* & Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2013). Nonsuicidal self-injury disorder: Clinician and Expert Ratings. Psychiatry Research, 210, 940-
944.
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Lengel, G. J.*, & Grant, D. M. (2013). Nonsuicidal self-injury: The contribution of general personality functioning.
Personality and Mental Health, 7, 56-68.
Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Glover, N. G., Derefinko, K. J., Miller, J.D., & Widiger, T. A. (2010). The search for the successful psychopath. Journal of
Research in Personality, 44, 554-558.
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Collaborations with other labs
Fields, K., Ciciolla, L., Addante, S., Erato, S., Quigley, A., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Shreffler, K. M. (in press). Maternal adverse childhood
experiences and perceived stress during pregnancy: The role of personality. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.
Min, J.*, Lopez, S. V., Dunn, D. S., Leffingwell, T. R., & Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2021) Understanding perceptions of nonsuicidal self-injury:
Descriptive and injunctive norms. Psychiatric Quarterly. 1-15.
Sawhney, M., Hawkins, M. A. W., Stout, M. E., Keirns, N. G., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Finn, J. A. (2020). The facets of conscientiousness and
Body Mass Index: Potential mediation by eating factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 166, 110157.
Tucker, R. P., Lengel, G. J.*, Smith, C. E., Capron, D. W., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Wingate, L. R. (2016). Maladaptive five factor model
personality traits associated with borderline personality disorder indirectly affect susceptibility to suicide ideation through increased anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns. Psychiatry Research, 246, 432-437.
DeShong, H. L.*, Tucker, R. P., O'Keefe, V. M., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., & Wingate, L. R. (2015). Five factor model traits as a predictor of suicidal
ideation and interpersonal suicide risk in a college sample. Psychiatry Research, 226, 217-223.
Tucker, R. P., O'Keefe, V. M., Cole, A. B., Rhoades-Kerswill, S., Hollingsworth, D. W., Helle, A. C.*, DeShong, H. L.*, Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., &
Wingate, L. R. (2014). Mindfulness tempers the impact of personality on suicidal ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 68, 229-233.