An individual with a personality disorder is exhibiting inappropriate behaviors
The nurse has established a dialogue with the client and he attributes these behaviors to having an intense range of overwhelming emotions. In what category of personality symptoms would these emotions fall?
A) Interpersonal behavior
B) Impulse control
C) Affectivity
D) Cognition
Ans: C
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Personality disorders manifest with symptoms in two or more of the following areas: cognition—ways of perceiving and assigning meaning to self, others, and events; affectivity—the range, intensity, and appropriateness of emotionality; Interpersonal behavior; and impulse control.
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