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The role of spitefulness in personality disorders: Toward a better comprehension of the cluster B

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

Velotti ,
G. Rogier  and
C. Garofalo
Velotti
Affiliation:
University of Genoa, Educational Sciences, Psychology Unit, Genoa, Italy
G. Rogier
Affiliation:
La Sapienza, Psicologia clinica e dinamica, Roma, Italy
C. Garofalo
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Introduction

Cluster B personality disorders (i.e., Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders), is characterized by a dramatic pattern of relating to others, with symptoms characterized by a difficulty regulating emotional states and behavior (APA, 2000). The desire to cause pain often characterized these disorders (i.e. borderline) involving vindictively harming another with serious and often negative interpersonal consequences. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research about the nature of relationships between spitefulness and personality disorders.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the association between spitefulness and personality disorders in an offenders samples (N = 305).

Aims

To investigate the associations among spitefulness and personality disorders. We hypothesized that spitefulness would be differently associated with emotional and impulsive personality disorders (cluster B: antisocial, borderline, histrionic and narcissistic).

Results

As expected, spitefulness and some personality, disorders were positively associated. Specifically, ASPD and Borderline are strongly associated with high levels of spitefulness.

Conclusions

Such results confirm the theorization that the assessment of spitefulness improve the accuracy of diagnosing of these personality disorders.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Forensic psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S591
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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