Mean discrepancies between the patient’s current report and the informant’s report of the patient’s personality: comparison of informant premorbid versus informant current report discrepancy
| IAS facet score | Difference scores from subject current rating | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTD | AD | NC | ||||
| Other current | Other premorbid | Other current | Other premorbid | Other current | Other premorbid | |
| Bold: closer match to the patients’ self report; Italic: an equivocal match (both difference scores within absolute T score of 2.0); Underline: facet pairs in which current self awareness was significantly inaccurate compared with normal controls, controlling for degree of change (p<0.05). | ||||||
| AD, Alzheimer’s disease; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; IAS, Interpersonal Adjectives Scale; NC, normal control. | ||||||
| Assured/dominant (PA) | 8.9 | −7.1 | 6.1 | −10.8 | −3.8 | −4.8 |
| Arrogant/calculating (BC) | 0.2 | −0.7 | 8.8 | 6.1 | −2.4 | −3.5 |
| Cold hearted (DE) | −15.5 | −4.8 | 0.3 | −5.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
| Aloof/introverted (FG) | −20.7 | 1.3 | −3.1 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 4.0 |
| Unassured/submissive (HI) | −15.4 | 1.2 | −12.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| Unassuming/ingenuous (JK) | −5.2 | −7.0 | −9.5 | −2.7 | −4.1 | −10.3 |
| Warm/agreeable (LM) | 12.3 | 4.9 | −0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | −2.0 |
| Gregarious/extraverted (NO) | 18.8 | −2.6 | 8.8 | 0.7 | −0.8 | −4.7 |