Will Exploring the Darkness Prove Enlightening? Five Questions About the 'Maladaptive Big Five'

摘要

Guenole's (2014) focal article aims to enhance the field of personality research in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology by asking psychologists to draw on the developments in clinical psychology to justify the addition of five new traits to the personality taxonomy. Although I applaud any effort to enrich the measurement of personality in this field, there are five important questions that need to be answered before the field endorses the "maladaptive Big Five" (MB5).