Gawda Barbara
Department of Psychology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Plac Litewski 5, 20-080, Lublin, Poland,
J Psycholinguist Res. 2013 Dec;42(6):571-80. doi: 10.1007/s10936-012-9237-z.
This study investigated the specific emotional lexicons in narratives created by persons diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) to test the hypothesis that individuals with ASPD exhibit deficiencies in emotional language. Study participants consisted of 60 prison inmates with ASPD, 40 prison inmates without ASPD, and 60 men without antisocial tendencies who described situations involving love, hate and anxiety depicted by photographs. The lexical choices made in the narratives were analyzed, and a comparison of the three groups revealed differences between the emotional narratives of inmates with ASPD, inmates without ASPD, and the control group. Although the narratives of the individuals with ASPD included more words describing emotions and higher levels of emotional intensity, the valence of these words was inappropriate. The linguistic characteristics of these narratives were associated with high levels of psychopathy and low emotional reactivity.
本研究调查了被诊断患有反社会人格障碍（ASPD）的人所创作叙述中的特定情感词汇，以检验ASPD患者在情感语言方面存在缺陷这一假设。研究参与者包括60名患有ASPD的监狱囚犯、40名未患ASPD的监狱囚犯以及60名无反社会倾向的男性，他们描述了照片所描绘的涉及爱、恨和焦虑的情境。对叙述中做出的词汇选择进行了分析，三组之间的比较揭示了患有ASPD的囚犯、未患ASPD的囚犯和对照组在情感叙述上的差异。尽管患有ASPD的个体的叙述包含更多描述情感的词汇以及更高水平的情感强度，但这些词汇的效价是不恰当的。这些叙述的语言特征与高水平的精神病态和低情感反应性相关。
