Editing Histrionic personality disorder (section)

== Epidemiology ==
The survey data from the National epidemiological survey from 2001 to 2002 suggests a prevalence of HPD of 1.84 percent.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grant |first1=Bridget F. |last2=Hasin |first2=Deborah S. |last3=Stinson |first3=Frederick S. |last4=Dawson |first4=Deborah A. |last5=Chou |first5=S. Patricia |last6=Ruan |first6=W. June |last7=Pickering |first7=Roger P. |date=2004-07-15 |title=Prevalence, Correlates, and Disability of Personality Disorders in the United States |journal=The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry |volume=65 |issue=7 |pages=948–958 |doi=10.4088/jcp.v65n0711 |issn=0160-6689 |pmid=15291684}}</ref>{{medical citation needed|date=April 2018}} Major character traits may be inherited, while other traits may be due to a combination of genetics and environment, including childhood experiences.<ref name="AMN2" /> This personality is seen more often in women than in men.<ref>{{cite book |last=Suinn |first=Richard M. |title=Fundamentals of abnormal psychology |publisher=Nelson-Hall |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-8304-1071-2 |edition=Updated |location=Chicago |pages=335–336}}</ref> Approximately 65% of HPD diagnoses are women while 35% are men. In Marcie Kaplan's ''A Women's View of DSM-III'', she argues that women are overdiagnosed due to potential biases and expresses that even healthy women are often automatically diagnosed with HPD.<ref name=":2" /> It has also been argued due to diagnostic bias that prevalence rates are equal among women and men.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sprock |first=June |date=2 February 2000 |title=Gender-Typed Behavioral Examples of Histrionic Personality Disorder |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007514522708 |journal=Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=107–122 |doi=10.1023/A:1007514522708 |s2cid=141244223}}</ref>

Many symptoms representing HPD in the DSM are exaggerations of traditional feminine behaviors. In a peer and self-review study, it showed that femininity was correlated with histrionic, dependent and narcissistic personality disorders.<ref name=":1" /> Although it has typically been found that at least two thirds of HPD diagnoses are female, there have been a few exceptions.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Corbitt, E., Widiger, T. |year=1995 |title=Sex differences among the personality disorders: An exploration of the data |journal=Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=225–238 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2850.1995.tb00041.x}}</ref> Whether or not the rate will be significantly higher than the rate of women within a particular clinical setting depends upon many factors that are mostly independent of the differential sex prevalence for HPD.<ref name=":5" /> Those with HPD are more likely to look for multiple people for attention, which leads to marital problems due to jealousy and lack of trust from the other party. This makes them more likely to become divorced or separated once married.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Disney, K.L., Weinstein, Y., & Oltmanns, T.F. |year=2012 |title=Personality disorder symptoms are differentially related to divorce frequency |journal=Journal of Family Psychology |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=959–965 |doi=10.1037/a0030446 |pmc=3569846 |pmid=23244459}}</ref> With few studies done to find direct causations between HPD and culture, cultural and social aspects play a role in inhibiting and exhibiting HPD behaviors.