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Personality traits and pathology in older and younger incarcerated women
Author(s) -
Hurt Susan,
Oltmanns Thomas F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.1155
Subject(s) - psychology , exhibitionism , impulsivity , personality , temperament , personality disorders , clinical psychology , personality pathology , big five personality traits , personality assessment inventory , aggression , psychiatry , social psychology
Abstract Personality disorders were examined in 157 incarcerated women, using the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP; Clark, 1996) to assess 10 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , Third Edition, Revised (DSM‐III‐R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987) diagnostic categories and dimensions and 15 domains of trait/temperament relevant to disordered personality. Similar to both community samples and incarcerated men, older women had lower rates of personality disorders than younger women, and the difference was mostly accounted for by differences in the Cluster B disorders. In an exploratory analysis of trait and temperament scales, the older women also scored lower in Aggression, Disinhibition, Entitlement, Exhibitionism, Impulsivity, and Manipulativeness while younger women scored lower in Workaholism and Propriety. These findings suggest that remission of antisocial behavior in women may be associated with changes in lower order personality traits or temperament. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 457–464, 2002