Cognitions in antisocial personality and their association with "dark" traits.
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Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
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Date de publication:
22 08 2024
22 08 2024
Historique:
received:
30
08
2023
accepted:
05
08
2024
medline:
23
8
2024
pubmed:
23
8
2024
entrez:
22
8
2024
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epublish
Résumé
Unlike the cognitions associated with depressive symptoms, little is known about those associated with antisocial personality and with its related traits ("dark traits"). Using the scrambled sentences task, an instrument from depression research, we investigated cognitions such as justifications (external blaming for one's behavior) and harm to others (based on the notion that some of these individuals enjoy harming or humiliating others) that we hypothesized may be prevalent in those high in antisocial personality traits. Confirming our hypothesis, these cognitions were associated with ratings on different antisocial personality scales and with antisocial and detachment scores in the alternative model of personality disorders of the DSM-5 (AMPD) in three non-clinical samples, but not with depressive symptoms or neuroticism. Cognitions including harm to others were differentially associated with high sadism. These findings empirically characterize classes of cognitions that are shared by individuals with antisocial tendencies, and that differ from those associated with depressive symptoms.
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doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69473-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-69473-6
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eng
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