A typology of antisociality in methadone patients

J Abnorm Psychol. 1998 Aug;107(3):412-22. doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.107.3.412.

Abstract

Multistage cluster analyses with replications were used to sort score profiles of 252 methadone maintained men on 4 continuous measures of antisociality--childhood conduct disorder and adult antisocial personality disorder symptoms, the revised Psychopathy Checklist, and the Socialization scale of the California Psychological Inventory. The analysis yielded 6 replicable and temporally stable cluster groups varying in degree and pattern of antisociality. The groups were statistically compared on sets of external criterion variables--Addiction Severity Index measures of past and recent substance abuse and functioning and lifetime criminal history. Axis I and II symptomatology, anxiety and depression, object relations and reality testing, hostility, guilt, and machiavellianism. The expression of antisociality in the 6 groups and differences found among them on the external variables supported the validity of a more complex conceptualization of antisociality than is provided by antisocial personality disorder.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age of Onset
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder / classification*
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder / complications
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder / psychology
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Crime / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / complications
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Opioid-Related Disorders / complications*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Terminology as Topic