VISN 20 Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Portland VA Medical Center.
Department of Psychology, La Salle University.
Personal Disord. 2014 Apr;5(2):186-94. doi: 10.1037/per0000025. Epub 2013 Dec 16.
The factors of psychopathy assessment tools diverge in their relationships with numerous problematic behaviors and psychological disorders. Emotion dysregulation is a pathological process argued to cut across diagnoses, and may be important in better understanding these divergent associations. This study sought to clarify psychopathy's association with emotion regulation difficulties. It was predicted that the Fearless Dominance and Self-Centered Impulsivity factors of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised would demonstrate differential relationships with a multidimensional conceptualization of emotion regulation difficulties. Ninety-one male undergraduate students and 28 male court-mandated anger management participants completed self-report questionnaires measuring emotion regulation difficulties and psychopathic personality characteristics. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that emotion regulation difficulties were negatively associated with Fearless Dominance psychopathic traits, but positively associated with Self-Centered Impulsivity and global psychopathic traits. In addition, emotion regulation difficulties explained incremental variance in psychopathic traits over and above negative affect alone. These findings may have clinical implications for the etiology and treatment of psychopathic personality disorder.
精神变态评估工具的因素在其与众多问题行为和心理障碍的关系上存在差异。情绪调节障碍是一种被认为贯穿各种诊断的病理过程，对于更好地理解这些不同的关联可能很重要。本研究旨在澄清精神变态与情绪调节困难之间的关系。研究预测，《精神变态人格量表修订版》中的无畏支配和以自我为中心的冲动因素将表现出与情绪调节困难的多维概念化的不同关系。91 名男性本科生和 28 名男性法庭强制愤怒管理参与者完成了自我报告问卷，测量情绪调节困难和精神变态人格特征。分层回归分析表明，情绪调节困难与无畏支配的精神变态特征呈负相关，而与以自我为中心的冲动和整体精神变态特征呈正相关。此外，情绪调节困难在消极影响之外，还可以解释精神变态特征的增量变化。这些发现可能对精神变态人格障碍的病因学和治疗具有临床意义。
