Looking across Table 3 it is clear that the facets from the domains of neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have much to offer in the way of describing the personality disorders. The facets from the domain of openness, however, did not appear to be particularly useful, as evidenced by the solitary boldface correlation between openness to actions and avoidant PD. It should be noted that several other correlations with the facets of openness reached statistical significance and were above the magnitude for a small effect size (e.g., correlation of schizotypal with openness to fantasy). However, the fact that only fourteen of them reached this threshold indicates that openness did not have a strong relationship to the DSM-IV-TR personality disorders.
