scholarly journals The Differentiation of Narrative Styles in Individuals with High Psychopathic Deviate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gawda
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Roc Curves ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Intelligence Level ◽  
Psychopathic Deviate

AbstractThe current study was designed to show the differentiation of narrative styles in individuals with high scores in Psychopathic deviate (Pd) scale and develop a method enabling identification of psychopathic personality traits based on linguistic indicators. 600 spontaneous narrations related to emotional topics have been examined for grammar, syntactic, and lexical indicators. The indicators have been selected based on a review related to language of psychopaths. The narrations were written by 200 persons who were also tested for psychopathic deviate and intelligence level, including prisoners diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Independent judges identified the linguistic indicators which were then counted for each person with the use of computer software. The configuration profiles of the linguistic indicators/narrative styles were established using k-mean clustering method. Then, ANOVA was performed to show which clusters differentiate the levels of psychopathic deviate. The findings show there are two configurations of language features (important: single features were not examined) associated with high levels of psychopathic deviate patterns. Two narrative styles were identified, labelled demonstrative-digressive-egocentric-emotional-dogmatic and reserved-focused on the topic-repetitive, which indicate high psychopathic deviate traits. The ROC curves were applied to establish the prediction of the narrative styles for high psychopathic deviate scores.

1. How can we know if someone is a psychopath or is at risk of becoming one?

2019 ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Essi Viding
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
General Population ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
The Difference

What are individuals with psychopathy like and what are their defining features? ‘How can we know if someone is a psychopath or is at risk of becoming one?’ considers two case studies to give an idea of the developmental course of criminal psychopathy and what psychopathic personality traits look like. It discusses the Psychopathy Checklist, developed by Robert Hare in the 1980s, and explains the difference between antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and psychopathy. Research has shown that whether we look at criminal psychopaths, individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in the general population, or children who are at risk of developing psychopathy, similar patterns of brain function and information processing are seen.

On Moral Judgements and Personality Disorders

1988 ◽  
Vol 153 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
Antisocial Behaviour ◽  
World Health ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Psychopathic Disorder

Psychopathic personality has always been a contentious concept, but it continues to be used in clinical practice and research. It also has its contemporary synonyms in the categories of antisocial personality disorder in DSM–III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) and “personality disorder with predominantly asocial or sociopathic manifestations” in ICD–9 (World Health Organization, 1978), and some overlap between these and the legal category of psychopathic disorder identified in the English Mental Health Act 1983 is commonly assumed. Although the literal meaning of ‘psychopathic’ is nothing more specific than psychologically damaged, the term has long since been transmogrified to mean socially damaging, and as currently used, it implies a specific category of people inherently committed to antisocial behaviour as a consequence of personal abnormalities or deficiencies.

Using the Psychopathic Personality Inventory to identify subtypes of antisocial personality disorder

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cox ◽  
John F. Edens ◽  
Melissa S. Magyar ◽  
Scott O. Lilienfeld ◽  
Kevin S. Douglas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Psychopathic Personality Inventory

scholarly journals Antisocial Personality Traits as a Risk Factor of Violence between Individuals with Mental Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Filov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Statistical Research ◽  
Antisocial Personality Traits

BACKGROUND: Mental disorder can increase the likelihood of taking violent acts of some individuals, but only a small percentage of violence in societies could be attributed to patients with mental health problems. For the past several years numerous studies related to forensic psychiatry has confirmed a close causal relationship between violent offenders and psychiatric comorbidity. Several studies have provided strong evidence that antisocial personality disorders (APD) represent a significant clinical risk for violence. AIM: This study aims to show the relationship between antisocial personality disorder and antisocial personality traits with the other mental disorders and the manifestation of violence between the forensic populations of patients. METHODS: The survey was conducted at the Psychiatric Hospitals and the Mental Health Centre. The research was carried out between two groups: one group of perpetrators of violence (PV) and a control group divided into two subgroups, a control group without violence (CG WV) and a group of respondents forcibly hospitalised CG FH. After obtaining consent for participation in the study, patients were interviewed, and questionnaires were applied. The research methodology included using measuring instrument-Psychopathy Checklist-revised (Hare's PCL-R). RESULTS: The results show that in the group PV antisocial personality disorder is present in 45 patients, or 50% of the total sample. According to statistical research in between groups PV, CG WV and CG WV, there were determent significant differences in specifically listed items from Hare's PCL-R. CONCLUSIONS: Psychopathological traits of mental disorders which are pathognomonic of committing violence are paranoid schizophrenia, as the most present and antisocial personality disorder in comorbidity, as the highest risk factor among the population with mental disorders that manifest violence.

scholarly journals Psychopathic traits in adolescence: a review

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Ronchetti ◽  
Gabriel José Chittó Gauer ◽  
Sílvio Vasconcellos ◽  
Leonardo Machado da Silva ◽  
Guinter Luhring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Initial Tendency ◽  
Psychological Instruments

Currently, and throughout the history of mental healthcare, the literature highlights that there is no agreement on the use of the terms "antisocial personality disorder" and "psychopathic personality". This paper aims to promote a debate over these concepts and their evaluation for both adults and adolescents. With this aim, a systematic review was conducted in the MedLine data base between 1968 and March 2011 using the terms "adolescent", "antisocial personality disorder", and "personality assessment". From the 59 identified articles 29 were selected to further analysis. The discussion of these terms was confirmed, as well as the importance of assessing psychopathic traits during adolescence. An initial tendency to disregard the term psychopathy and its affective implications was evidenced. However, the latest psychological instruments return to the discussion regarding the use of this diagnosis and its implications.

MMPI Differences among Three Diagnostic Groups of Mexican-American State Hospital Patients

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1071-1074
Author(s):  
Roberto J. Velasquez ◽  
Luis Gimenez
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Unipolar Depression ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Psychopathic Deviate ◽  
Hospital Patients

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were significant MMPI differences among three diagnostic groups of Mexican-American psychiatric inpatients and whether a profile pattern was associated with each one, schizophrenia ( n = 32), antisocial personality disorder ( n = 15), and affective disorder with unipolar depression ( n = 18). Comparisons on the basic validity and clinical scales yielded only three significant differences, on the Frequency, Depression, and Schizophrenia scales. No unique profile patterns were found; groups showed a similar mean profile configuration, with elevations on the Psychopathic Deviate and Schizophrenia scales. Overall, antisocial men appeared on the MMPI less disturbed than either the depressive or schizophrenic men. The results are consistent with previous findings which suggest that the MMPI scores may correspond poorly with DSM-III diagnostic groups. The results also suggested that Mexican-Americans in psychiatric facilities, irrespective of diagnosis, may respond similarly on the MMPI.

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