The correlations between the expert consensus profiles and the empirically-based profiles were often higher across the ten personality disorders than were obtained for the hypotheses of Widiger, Trull, et al. (2002), including the histrionic (increasing from .42 to .79 and .63 for the clinicians' and researchers' descriptions, respectively), narcissistic (increasing from .54 to .86 and .82), and obsessive-compulsive (increasing from .52 to .92 and .91). This improvement in confirmation is principally due to the fact that the expert consensus profiles are substantially more extensive in the inclusion of FFM facets than were the FFM profiles generated by Widiger, Trull, et al. (2002). The latter were confined to FFM facets suggested by the limited number of diagnostic criteria provided for each respective personality disorder in DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000). In contrast, the clinicians and researchers were free to consider all 30 facets of the FFM and in many instances their descriptions were more extensive and richer in content than the DSM-IV-TR criterion sets. For example, as noted by Samuel and Widiger (2004), “the clinicians' FFM descriptions of paranoid personality disorder went beyond
