MCMI-III appear to be clear outliers, as five of the facets actually correlate negatively with neuroticism, while nearly all of the facets correlate significantly positively with the other instruments. These negative correlations for the MCMI-III stand in particularly stark contrast to those found for the PDQ-4, which were all greater than .15. In other words, these two instruments appear to conceptualize the histrionic diagnosis' relationship with neuroticism in an almost opposite manner.
