Comparison of Personality Disorders in Adjusted and Non-adjusted Couples based on SWAP-200

In the present study, the role of personality disorders on marital adjustment was assessed. At first, 50 couples completed DAS, then in order to personality analysis on the basis of SWAP-200, they participated at 2.5 to 3 hour semi-structured interview sessions. The objective was to survey the role of personality disorders, especially cluster B personality disorders, on marital disadjustment. The role of variables including age, gender, education, number of children, and years of marriage were assesse4d as covariates and findings revealed that non-adjusted couples experienced more personality disorders than adjusted ones and as we expected, the cluster B disorders were more prevalent than clusters A and C.It can be said that people who suffer from antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, and hysterionc personality disorders, would experience more conflict in their relations.