Violența și comportamentul agresiv al persoanelor cu tulburare de personalitate

Abstract

Aggression and violent behavior in people with personality disorder (PD) is a serious concern for mental health professionals and those working in the justice system. There are also studies in the literature showing that relationships between TP and aggression vary in both magnitude and direction, supporting the idea that TP reflects substantial heterogeneity in aggressive behavior. Although there has been substantial progress in theoretical knowledge regarding the mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior for specific TPs, a general theory of psychological aggression that can explain the relationship between TPs and aggression has been proposed. In this sense, the General Model of Aggression (GAM) was developed, which provides a unifying framework of factors correlated with aggression. The general model of aggression identifies several cognitive and affective factors as key determinants of aggression. Investigating these factors may help to understand and account for the increased rates of aggression observed in individuals with PD. The study presented in the article aims to identify a profile of the family aggressor according to personality dimensions (impulsivity, aggression-hostility, neuroticism) and personality variables (personality disorders, physical aggression and hostility) in men who are serving custodial sentences for crimes by VD. The research was carried out on a sample of 173 subjects, adult men, serving custodial sentences, representative of the target population. The elevation of the typologies, of the groups of aggressors, was carried out based on the subscales of the antisocial, paranoid, depressive, narcissistic and brothel typology of the SCID-II questionnaire. To create the clusters, we selected the following variables: depressive personality disorder (TPD), paranoid personality disorder (TPPA), narcissistic personality disorder (TPNa), borderline personality disorder (TPBo), antisocial personality disorder (TPAS), the personality traits impulsivity, neuroticism-anxiety and aggressionhostility, rumination, as a cognitive-emotional coping strategy and instrumental aggression traits, respectively physical aggression and hostility. The cluster analysis allowed, from the empirical data, the identification of four types of family aggressors: non-pathological aggressors, borderline/dysphoric aggressors, antisocial/generally violent aggressors and the antisocial subtype.