Affective disorder and ‘psychopathy’ in a sample of younger male delinquents

Moeller, A. A.; Hell, Daniel

doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.02377.x

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“…Blackburn’s (1975) “secondary psychopath,” similar to Hicks, Markon, Patrick, Krueger, and Newman’s (2004) “aggressive psychopath,” is described as anxious, depressed, hostile, and impulsive. This subtype appears to reflect the emotional dysregulation and interpersonal ambivalence features of BPD and is consistent both with psychopathy’s covariation with the diagnoses of both ASPD and BPD (Moeller & Hell, 2003) and with the finding that individuals who are high in the components of PCL-R Factor 2 are more likely to meet the criteria for BPD (Blackburn & Coid, 1998). The association of aggressive psychopathy with BPD is consistent with the finding that emotional dysregulation may mediate the relation between BPD and violence (Mancke, Herpertz, Kleindienst, & Bertsch, 2017; Newhill, Eack, & Mulvey, 2012).…”

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Covariates of the Severity of Aggression in Sexual Crimes: Psychopathy and Borderline Characteristics

et al. 2018

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Whereas risk assessment literature on sexual offending has primarily focused on prediction of subsequent sexual crimes, and not the severity of those crimes, the first aim of the present study was to identify variables that predict the amount of damage to victims in sexual crimes compared with those that predict general aggressiveness. The second aim was to ascertain whether adding emotional instability measurements, as in borderline personality disorder (BPD), would add incremental variance to that captured by the facets of the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R). Trained raters assessed on the PCL-R, BPD, and measures of severity of sexual and nonsexual violence 302 adults who had sexually offended. PCL-R’s Antisociality and two externalizing BPD factors (one from the standard and one from the alternative criteria) were significant predictors of violence both in sexual and nonsexual crimes. In contrast, deficits in the PCL-R’s Affective facet (2) predicted victim damage in sexual contexts only, whereas the Lifestyle Impulsivity facet (3) of the PCL-R predicted violence in nonsexual contexts only. These findings suggest that adding measures of emotional dysregulation to commonly used instruments like the PCL-R, which assesses callousness and antisociality, may be beneficial for predicting violence.

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Covariates of the Severity of Aggression in Sexual Crimes: Psychopathy and Borderline Characteristics

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“…PTSD was reported to be the most common anxiety disorder diagnosis in this sample; however, its prevalence was not reported in either the total sample or the psychopathic subsample. Conversely, Moeller and Hell (2003) reported that none of the high psychopathic offenders from their sample of male prisoners met diagnostic criteria for PTSD, despite a significant correlation between PCL-R total scores and number of traumatic experiences.…”

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Facets of psychopathy in relation to potentially traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder among female prisoners: The mediating role of borderline personality disorder traits.

Blonigen

Sullivan

Hicks

et al. 2012

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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Despite the high prevalence of trauma exposure in female prisoners, few studies have examined the link between psychopathy and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—or the potential mediating role of borderline personality disorder traits. Using a sample of incarcerated women, we identified differential associations across facets of psychopathy, as assessed via the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL–R; R. D. Hare, 2003), with potentially traumatic events (PTE) and symptoms of PTSD. Specifically, the Interpersonal and Affective facets were unrelated to both PTE and PTSD, while the Lifestyle and Antisocial facets were each associated with PTE and the Antisocial facet was uniquely associated with PTSD symptoms. Borderline personality disorder traits fully accounted for the association between the Antisocial facet and both PTE and PTSD, while the Lifestyle facet contributed incrementally to the prediction of PTE. The findings clarify linkages among psychopathy, trauma, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder traits, and extend our understanding of the clinical presentation of psychopathy in women.

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“…They suggested that in some individuals the association between early childhood victimization and violence might be mediated by psychopathy. In a Swiss sample of younger male offenders (age 17–27), PCL-R total scores were significantly correlated with the number of prior threatening events experienced [22]. Recently, Verona, Hicks, and Patrick [23] reported that, among female offenders, experiences of both physical and sexual abuse correlated with PCL-R total scores and with scores on the affective-interpersonal and antisocial lifestyle dimensions of psychopathy.…”

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Emotional dysregulation and trauma predicting psychopathy dimensions in female and male juvenile offenders

Sevecke

Franke

Kosson

et al. 2016

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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BackgroundPsychopathy is a specific syndrome that predicts future violent and aggressive behavior in adults. Studies in youth and adults have demonstrated a strong association between early traumatic incidents and later dissocial behavior. Moreover, the impact of personality pathology and emotional dysregulation on aggressive and violent behavior is well established. However, few studies have addressed the relationship between early traumatization and psychopathic traits in adolescents.MethodThe present study examined associations between both general dimensions of personality pathology and early traumatic experiences and the dimensions of psychopathy in 170 male and 171 female adolescent detainees.ResultsAnalyses revealed associations between physical abuse, emotional dysregulation and psychopathic traits in delinquent boys but not in delinquent girls.ConclusionHypothesized relationships between trauma, personality pathology could only be confirmed in the lifestyle and antisocial, but not in the core affective and interpersonal facets of psychopathy.

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Affective disorder and ‘psychopathy’ in a sample of younger male delinquents

Abstract: The inverse relationship between threatening events and the PTSD diagnosis seems to indicate other coping modalities than those found in 'non-psychopaths'. That finding is discussed against the background of psychophysiological data and psychosocial learning models.

Cited by 14 publications

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Covariates of the Severity of Aggression in Sexual Crimes: Psychopathy and Borderline Characteristics

Covariates of the Severity of Aggression in Sexual Crimes: Psychopathy and Borderline Characteristics

Facets of psychopathy in relation to potentially traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder among female prisoners: The mediating role of borderline personality disorder traits.

Emotional dysregulation and trauma predicting psychopathy dimensions in female and male juvenile offenders

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