Gender differences in psychiatric morbidity and violent behaviour among a household population in Great Britain

摘要

Men are more violent than women. It is unclear whether psychiatric morbidity contributes to this gender difference in the general population. This study examined gender differences in psychiatric diagnosis and violent behaviour to test whether risk from psychiatric morbidity accounted for gender differences in violent behaviour; whether violent males were more vulnerable to risk from psychiatric morbidity; and, whether violent women surmounted a higher threshold of risk from psychiatric morbidity.