General and maladaptive traits and anger in a combined forensic psychiatric and general population sample

作者：Decuyper Mieke^*; De Bolle Marleen; De Fruyt Filip

来源：International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2011, 34(5): 354-361.

DOI：10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.08.001

• Anger
• Personality
• Personality pathology
• Five factor model
• Forensic

The present study examines the associations between anger and general and maladaptive traits in a combined forensic psychiatric and community sample of men. Thirty-four male forensic psychiatric patients and 219 men from the general population completed the Novaco Anger Scale (NAS; Novaco, 1994), the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), the ADP-IV (Schotte & De Doncker, 1994) and the VKP (Duijsens, Haringsma, & EurelingsBontekoe, 1999) at two measurement occasions with a one-year interval. The results of a series of multiple regression analyses showed that general and maladaptive traits accounted for a substantial amount of variance in anger scores. Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Externalizing traits were most prominent in the prediction of anger, while Conscientiousness was acting as a suppressor variable in the regression models. Strengths and limitations of the present study and implications for further research and clinical practice are discussed.

• 出版日期2011-10