A quantitative analysis of the findings does suggest support for the FFM conceptualization of the DSM-IV-TR personality disorders. Particularly strong confirmation was found for the borderline, antisocial, and avoidant disorders, as the hypothesized FFM profiles for these PDs correlated higher than .75 with the meta-analytic results. Significant correlations were obtained for all of the personality disorders and all but one obtained correlations above .50. The weakest results were obtained for the histrionic personality disorder, which achieved a correlation of only .42. Widiger, Trull, et al. (2002) hypothesized correlations with depressiveness, self-consciousness, openness to fantasy, openness to feelings, and trust, none of which were confirmed. Nevertheless, it should perhaps be noted that the hypotheses for the four facets of extraversion (warmth, gregariousness, excitement-seeking, and positive emotionality) were confirmed and it is these facets that are central to the FFM conceptualization of this personality disorder. “Histrionic personality disorder represents to a great extent an extreme variant of extraversion” (Widiger, Trull, et al., 2002, p. 94). Millon's (1981) original conceptualization of this personality disorder was as the “gregarious pattern” (p. 131). Histrionic is
