RT Article
T1 Identity and Personality Pathology in Adult Forensic Psychiatric Patients and Healthy Controls
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 15
SP 1558
OP 1578
A1 Tressová, Deni
A2 De Caluwé, Elien
A2 Bogaerts, Stefan 1964-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1905537832
AB Since the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), identity impairment has become a diagnostic criterion for all personality disorders. The current study examined the occurrence of identity dimensions, clinically relevant identity impairments and personality pathology, and associations between these constructs in 92 forensic patients and 139 healthy controls. Patients showed higher levels of almost all identity dimensions, identity impairments, personality disorders, and almost all maladaptive personality traits than controls. Various identity dimensions were associated with consolidated identity as well as identity impairments in both groups. Both patients and controls with high ruminative exploration and identity malfunctioning showed more personality pathology. Different associations between identity functioning and particularly antisocial and borderline personality disorder showed to be stronger in patients than in controls. Our results highlight the importance of identity impairment as a crucial criterion to assess and treat personality pathology in forensic patients.
K1 Forensic psychiatry
K1 forensic patients
K1 Adults
K1 personality disorders
K1 Identity
DO 10.1177/0306624X241248364