Personality Disorders is part of the Personality Disorders section of Psychiatry. Practise 38 exam-style MCQs for NEET PG, FMGE, INI-CET and NEET SS, each with the correct answer and a detailed explanation.
Personality Disorders MCQs run through the clusters — borderline emotionality, narcissistic grandiosity, paranoid mistrust — with Adler's inferiority complex and the projective and questionnaire tools used to assess personality, high-yield NEET PG psychiatry.
Sample Personality Disorders MCQs with answers
Sample MCQ #1
The concept of inferiority complex and birth order in relation to personality were given by:
ASigmund Freud
BCarl Jung
CAlfred Adler
DEric Erikson
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler’s individual psychology gives the concept of inferiority complex. And he also gave the concept of importance of birth order in personality structure . Reference : Morgan and King’s Introduction to Psychology, 7 th edition, Chapter 14 Personality, Page number 572.
Sample MCQ #2
A 30 year male is over enthusiastic and sensation seeking. He loves to explore new places and dishes of different cities. He makes big list of trying bungee jumping and sky diving and planning to organize camping in a deep forest. His personality trait is considered as:
ALow in conscientiousness
BHigh in openness to experience
CExtrovert
DHigh in neuroticism
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✓ Correct Answer: B. High in openness to experience
Openness to experience (High means adventurous) Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Reference: Kaplan and Saddocks Synopsis of Psychiaitry, 11th Edition, Chapter 22, Page No.: 761
Sample MCQ #3
Mr Mark, who was flying on spicejet. Suddenly he got up and started giving instruction to air hostesses to do pole dance. He instructed everyone in a melodramatic manner to clap for these ladies. He started behaving like a boss. One old man shouted on him and asked him to shut up and sit down. Mr Mark felt insulted and became very anxious. Which type of personality Mr Mark has?
ABorderline
BAnti-social
CNarcissistic
DSchizotypal
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✓ Correct Answer: C. Narcissistic
Excessive sense of self-importance and fragile emotion at the same time: Narcissistic PD. Reference: Kaplan and Saddocks Synopsis of Psychiaitry, 11th Edition, Chapter 22, Page No.: 753
Sample MCQ #4
An 18-year-old girl is brought by her parents with history of frequent episodes of irritability, suicidal threats and excessive emotionality on trivial issues. On asking the patient, she denies of having any symptoms and blames her parents for not raising her properly. She reports of feeling chronically empty from inside. All of the following defence mechanisms explain her symptoms except:
AActing out
BSomatisation
CDenial
DProjection
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Somatisation
The above case scenario depicts Cluster B personality disorder , Borderline Personality Disorder . In this disorder, defence mechanisms like denial, acting out, projection are frequently used. Reference : Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11th edition, Chapter 22 Personality Disorders, Page number 750
Sample MCQ #5
Gestaut Geschwind syndrome refers to a group of personality traits developing in a patient with epilepsy. These traits include all of the following except:
AIncreased philosophical interest
BHypersexuality
CHypergraphia
DCircumstantiality
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Hypersexuality
Gestaut Geschwind syndrome: Group of traits in some patients with focal dyscognitive seizures Temporal Lobe focus Heightened significance of things Serious, humourless, over inclusive & circumstantial speech – viscous Increased philosophical interest Hypergraphia Hypo sexuality Reference: Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10 th edition, Chapter 2.4 Neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy, Page number 1366.
Sample MCQ #6
All of the following tools can be used to assess personality except:
ARorschach test
BTAT test
CMMSE
DMMPI
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✓ Correct Answer: C. MMSE
Rorschach and TAT test → projective personality tests Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory → pencil-and-paper method of assessing personality . Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) → used to assess cognition and not personality . Reference : Morgan and King's Introduction to Psychology, 7th edition, Chapter 13 Psychological Assessment and testing, Page number 546.
Sample MCQ #7
A 20-year-old male presents with long-standing pattern of suspiciousness and mistrust on persons in general. In this case scenario, Paranoid personality disorder can be differentiated from Schizophrenia by:
AAbsence of hallucinations or formal thought disorder
BSocial withdrawal
CRestricted affect and diminished emotions
DUsing projection as primary defence mechanism
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✓ Correct Answer: A. Absence of hallucinations or formal thought disorder
Unlike in paranoid schizophrenia , patients with paranoid personality disorder do not have hallucinations or any formal thought disorder or disorganized speech However, in both Paranoid personality disorder and Schizophrenia, persons may appear socially withdrawn , lack friends and confidants , are unemotional and do not express emotions (restricted affect) In both, paranoid ideations are common , that is they interpret the world as threatening and believe intentions of others as malevolent , exploiting or deceiving In such paranoid ideations, defence mechanism of projection is often used in which unacknowledged feelings of self are attributed and projected onto others Reference: Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, Eleventh edition, Chapter 22, Personality Disorders, Page 744
Sample MCQ #8
Which of the following terms describe personality changes occurring after traumatic brain injury?
APseudo-anxious
BPseudo-psychopathic
CPseudo-psychotic
DPseudo-manic
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✓ Correct Answer: B. Pseudo-psychopathic
Two subsets of personality changes seen after traumatic brain injury: Pseudo-depressed personality: characterised by apathy and blunted affect Pseudo-psychopathic personality: characterised by disinhibition, egocentricity, and sexual inappropriateness. Reference: Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10 th edition, Chapter 2.5 Neuropsychiatric consequences of Traumatic Brain injury, Page number 1400.
What you can practise in Personality Disorders
38 Personality Disorders MCQs on Psychiatry — each with detailed explanations
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Personality Disorders MCQs run through the clusters — borderline emotionality, narcissistic grandiosity, paranoid mistrust — with Adler's inferiority complex and the projective and questionnaire tools used to assess personality, high-yield NEET PG psychiatry.
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MedLadder includes 38 curated MCQs for Personality Disorders under Psychiatry (Personality Disorders), covering NEET PG, FMGE, INI-CET and NEET SS preparation.
