Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire data on alcoholic violent offenders: specific connections to severe impulsive cluster B personality disorders and violent criminality

Table 1 Mental disorders of violent offenders.

	All (n = 198)	ASPD + (n = 114)	ASPD - (n = 84)	t	p
SCID-I diagnoses:
Alcohol dependence	171 (86%)	106 (93%)	67 (80%)	8.952	.003
Anxiety disorder	10 (5%)	4 (4%)	6 (7%)	1.661f	.254
Mood disorder	39 (20%)	24 (21%)	15 (18%)	.049	.825
SCID-II diagnoses:
Two or more PD	86 (44%)	74 (65%)	12 (14%)	63.726	.000
Borderline PD	77 (39%)	50 (44%)	27 (32%)	3.472	.062
Narcissistic PD	10 (5%)	7 (6%)	3 (3%)	1.348f	.355
Paranoid PD	28 (14%)	17 (15%)	11 (13%)	.301	.583

Pairwise comparison between offenders with and without antisocial personality disorder (ASPD+/-). f = Fisher's Exact Test was applied where a cross table cell contained less than 5 observations; Pearson's Chi-Square test was used for other comparisons. All comparisons were carried out with 1 degree of freedom. PD, personality disorder.

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