The Prevalence of Personality Disorder Among Wife Assaulters
| Autor: | Donald G. Dutton, Theresa Newlove, Stephen D. Hart |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory media_common.quotation_subject Sadistic personality disorder medicine.disease Personality disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Sexual abuse medicine Domestic violence Personality Wife Antisocial personality Psychiatry Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality Disorders. 7:329-341 |
| ISSN: | 0885-579X |
| DOI: | 10.1521/pedi.1993.7.4.329 |
| Popis: | We investigated personality disorder (PD) in court- and self-referred wife assaulters using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial In-ventory-II (MCMI-II-Millon, 1987) and the Personality Disorder Examination (PDE —Loranger, 1988). MCMI-II results indicated that 80% to 90% of men suffered from PD; the prevalence of individual PDs was similar among court- and self-referred men. According to the PDE, the prevalence of PD was considerably lower (50%), although still high in absolute terms. The disorders diagnosed most frequently by both methods were sadistic, antisocial, and borderline personality. The diagnostic agreement between the MCMI-II and the PDE was modest; concurrent correlations between dimensional scores on the two measures were also modest. Analysis of the MCMI-II response style scales indicated that self-referred men were more likely to admit pathology and to be self-critical; this phenomenon appeared to result from court-referred men with antisocial personality traits denying or minimizing pathology. ... |
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