Gawda Barbara
Department of Psychology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Plac Litewski 5, 20-080, Lublin, Poland.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2010 Aug;39(4):273-83. doi: 10.1007/s10936-009-9140-4.
The aim of this study was to show some specificity of syntax of narratives created by persons diagnosed with antisocial personality. The author attempted to verify and supplement information that persons with antisocial personality have an incapacity for emotional language. Scores of 60 prisoners with high antisocial tendencies, 40 prisoners with low antisocial tendencies, and 100 men without the antisocial tendencies, were analyzed. The participants had to describe the situations of love, hate and anxiety inspired by the photographs. The narrative discourse was analyzed. The research was concentrated on syntactic elements. Comparisons between the three groups were conducted. The results show the differences between the antisocial inmates, non-antisocial inmates, and controls. In their emotional narratives, the antisocial individuals used more repetitions, pauses and negations. These linguistic characteristics are attributed to high activity, psychopathy and emotionality of persons diagnosed with antisocial personality.
本研究的目的是揭示被诊断为反社会人格者所创作叙事的句法特异性。作者试图核实并补充信息,即反社会人格者缺乏情感表达能力。对60名具有高度反社会倾向的囚犯、40名具有低度反社会倾向的囚犯以及100名无反社会倾向的男性的得分进行了分析。参与者必须描述由照片引发的爱、恨和焦虑情境。对叙事话语进行了分析。研究集中在句法元素上。对三组进行了比较。结果显示了反社会囚犯、非反社会囚犯和对照组之间的差异。在他们的情感叙事中,反社会个体使用了更多的重复、停顿和否定。这些语言特征归因于被诊断为反社会人格者的高活跃度、心理病态和情感特质。