Interpersonal characteristics of male criminal offenders: Personality, psychopathological, and behavioral correlates.

Abstract

Interest in conceptualizing the interpersonal style of individuals who engage in serious antisocial behavior has increased in recent years. This study examines the personality, psychopathological, and behavioral correlates of interpersonal dominance and warmth, as operationalized via scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 2007), across several samples of male prison inmates (combined N ϭ 1,062). Consistent with theory, multivariate analyses indicated that low warmth and, to a lesser extent, high dominance were associated with antisocial and paranoid traits, specifically, and externalizing-spectrum psychopathology more generally, whereas borderline traits and internalizingspectrum psychopathology were uniquely associated with low interpersonal warmth. Among smaller subsamples of inmates followed prospectively, high dominance and, to a lesser extent, low warmth predicted general and aggressive institutional misconduct, whereas dominance uniquely predicted staff ratings of treatment noncompliance/failure.

Development and validation of triarchic psychopathy scales from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.

“…PCL-R scores were also available for the correctional sample, and analyses revealed a clear preferential relationship for MPQ Boldness with the Interpersonal facet of PCL-R Factor 1, encompassing charm, grandiosity, manipulation, and deceitfulness. These findings for narcissism and interpersonal features of psychopathy provide further support for the claim that high boldness is associated with maladaptive as well as adaptive tendencies (Lilienfeld et al, 2012; Patrick, Venables, & Drislane, 2013) and for the more general claim that interpersonal dominance may be predictive of adverse outcomes (e.g., violence, poor treatment response) even though the construct itself may not appear overtly pathological or correlate strongly with traditional indicators of antisocial personality traits (Edens, 2009; Smith, Edens, & McDermott, 2013). …”

Relationship between Assessed Emotion, Personality, Personality Disorder and Risk in Offenders with Intellectual Disability

“…Again, the study was correlational but these authors accepted only significant results with large effect sizes showing strong relationships between negative temperament and several PDs, with negative correlations between positive temperament and schizotypal, borderline and avoidant PD. More recently, in a study of 1,062 male prisoners, Edens (2009) examined interpersonal style, warmth, psychopathology and personality. He found low warmth and high dominance to be associated with anti-social and externalizing psychopathology, while internalizing psychopathology was associated with BPD.…”

The Impact of Interpersonal Style on Ruptures and Repairs in the Therapeutic Alliance Between Offenders and Therapists in Sex Offender Treatment

“…Those offenders with hostile and dominant interpersonal behaviors are also likely to have difficulty establishing a good therapeutic alliance (Edens, 2009;Holdsworth et al, 2014); a hostile-dominant IPS is also associated with a poorer therapeutic relationship and aggression toward treatment providers in mental health units (Cookson, Daffern, & Foley, 2012;Daffern, Duggan, Huband, & Thomas, 2010;Daffern et al, 2010a;Daffern et al, 2010b).…”