Articulated Thoughts of Intimate Partner Abusive Menduring Anger Arousal: Correlates with Personality Disorder Features

摘要

This study extends Eckhardt et al. (Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology, 66:259-269, 1998)research on cognitive correlates of anger arousal amongintimate partner abusers (IPA; n=130), distressed/nonviolent (DNV; n=27), and satisfied/nonviolent men (SNV; n=21) during a standardized anger induction task by examining variables thought to differentiate batterers. Variablespertinent to the Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (Psychological Bulletin, 116:476-497, 1994) typology—borderlineand antisocial personality, psychopathy, general violence,and partner violence—were correlated to articulated cognitive distortions. Since between group comparisons were notsignificant, articulated anger was correlated with antisocial,borderline, and psychopathic features. Borderline personality features correlated positively with articulations reflect-ing jealousy. Articulated themes were more consistentlyrelated to psychopathology than to violence, suggesting thattailoring treatments to personality features of clients mayprove fruitful.