a comparative analysis of personality pathology profiles among patients with pure depressive pure anxiety and pure somatoform disorders background depressive anxiety and somatoform disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders the assessment of comorbid personality pathology or traits in these disorders is relevant because it can lead to the exacerbation of them or to poorer remission rates to date no research findings have been published on the comparison of these three prevalent patient groups with regard to comorbid dimensional personality pathologymethods data of participants 1860 years came from a webbased routine outcome monitoring rom programme the present study used baseline data and was designed to compare personality pathology profiles between three separate outpatient groups pure anxiety disorders n1633 pure depressive disorders n1794 and pure somatoform disorders n479 personality pathology was measured with the dimensional assessment of personality pathologyshort form dappsfresults the pure depressive disorder group in comparison to the other two disorder groups exhibited the worst psychopathological and functional health image and most personality pathology in the pure anxiety disorder group the highest mean was found for the personality trait anxiousness and in the pure depressive disorder group for the traits identity problems affective lability anxiousness and restricted expressionlimitations the crosssectional nature of the study limits the conclusions that can be drawnconclusions the assessment of comorbid personality pathology in depressive anxiety somatoform disorders is clinically relevant whether a patient has a personality disorder or not this way treatment could partly be focused on specific personality traits that may be counterproductive for treatment outcome especially in depressive disorders