What is it about?
A perspective on personality disorder (PD) and violence is offered that views the relationship between them through the lenses of the Five Factor Model of personality and a quadripartite typology of violence. Evidence is reviewed suggesting that emotion dysregulation/impulsiveness, psychopathy, and delusional ideation conjointly contribute to the increased risk of violence shown by people with PD, and do so by contributing to a broad severity dimension of personality dysfunction
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Why is it important?
While it is established that personality disorders are associated with a predisposition to violence, the nature of this link - in particular what might be the psychological mechanisms that explain this link - remain unclear. This paper outlines what these mechanisms might be.
Perspectives
The link between psychopathy and violence is further explored in another publication, detailed below.
Dr Richard C Howard
Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK
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This page is a summary of: Personality disorders and violence: what is the link?, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s40479-015-0033-x.
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Resources
Howard R (2017) Psychopathy, Impulsiveness and Violence: How are they linked? J Behav 2(1): 1004
This paper details the links between different facets of psychopathy and violence, and how each is linked to impulsiveness.
Suggested relationships between components of the triarchic psychopathy model (outer ring), UPPS impulsiveness facets (middle ring), and types of violence in the quadripartite violence typology (QVT: inner circle).
Figure showing relationship between facets of psychopathy, impulsiveness and types of violence
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