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Group have proposed diagnosing personality disorders in part based on maladaptive trait dimensions. The work group initially described 37 maladaptive traits sorted rationally into six broader groups. Research operationalizing the DSM-5 traits resulted in a condensed set of 25 trait scales that delineate five higher-order domains (Krueger, Derringer, Markon, Watson, & Skodol, 2011; Wright et al., 2012), listed in Table 1. These traits can be organized hierarchically as follows: negative affectivity (e.g., emotional lability, anx-iousness), detachment (e.g., withdrawal, anhedonia), antag-onism (e.g., manipulativeness, deceitfulness), disinhibition (e.g., impulsivity, irresponsibility), and psychoticism (e.g., eccentricity, unusual beliefs; Krueger et al., 2011; Wright et al., 2012). Four of the 25 traits cross-load on two domains in the DSM-5 proposal. Each of these traits shares content with negative affectivity; three also share content with detachment (restricted affectivity, depressivity, suspicious-ness) and one shares content with antagonism (hostility). Notably, the structure of the maladaptive traits proposed for DSM-5 bears clear resemblance to the structure of nor-mal personality as represented by the Five-Factor Model (FFM; Costa & McCrea, 1992). Specifically, DSM-5 nega-tive affectivity appears akin to FFM neuroticism, DSM-5 detachment to low FFM extraversion, DSM-5 antagonisim to low FFM agreeableness, DSM-5 disinhibition to low conscientiousness, and DSM-5 psychoticism to FFM open-ness. This finding buttresses arguments that the FFM is capable of linking normal personality traits with disordered personality features (e.g., Widiger, 2011). Although previous research suggests that these models correspond at the level of higher-order factors in Belgian adolescents and young adults (De Fruyt, De Clercq, De Bolle, Markon, & Krueger, 2012), generalizability across cultures and FFM measures is currently unknown. The pur-pose of this study was to test the correspondence between the higher-order domains of the DSM-5 and FFM trait mod-els in adults using a brief FFM rating form (Mullins-Sweatt, Jamerson, Samuel, Olson, & Widiger, 2006). The use of