Antisocial behavior
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Universiteit van Tilburg
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Age between 18 and 65 years old; 2. Having a mental illness, treated in inpatient or outpatient community mental health care (diagnosis of psychiatric disorder); 3. The participant shows a minimum of one of the following forms of antisocial behavior (subtle antisocial behavior is sufficient for inclusion) screened by the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory: a. Social aggression: making negative comments, being rude towards others, trying to hurt someone*s feelings, calling someone names behind his/her back, revealing secrets etc. b. Rule-breaking: dangerous driving, lying, vandalism, incendiarism, stealing, being fired for misconduct, destroy others* property, etc. c. Physical aggression: threatening others, getting into fights more than the average person, yelling at others, getting angry quickly, etc. 4. Participants are known with antisocial behavior for a minimum of 1 year and antisocial behavior is also presented between acute episodes of psychiatric disorders (e.g., acute episodes of psychosis, use of narcotics).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: 1. Antisocial behavior is primary related to an acute episode of a psychiatric disorder (e.g., psychosis, addiction); 2. Florid psychotic (experiencing positive symptoms of a psychotic disorder at the moment of participation); 3. Actual (para)suicidal ideation; 4. Illiteracy; 5. Not mastering the Dutch language; Note: participants who have, or had, the medical condition *epilepsy* can take part of the study, but will excluded from testing with Virtual Reality.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The main study parameter is differentiating in antisocial behavior-clusters. Antisocial behavior will be measured by self-report questionnaires (ESI, RPQ, PNR, SVO). Predictors that are hypothesized to have influence on the development and maintenance of antisocial behavior are: trauma, mentalizing ability, personality, and callous-unemotional traits. The predictors trauma, personality and callous-unemotional traits will be measured by self-report questionnaires (VBE, NEO-PI-3, SRP-III, PPI-R, SOMI and UPPS-P). mentalizing ability will be measured by an attachment interview with scoring on reflective functioning (AAI/RFS), a computerized task (ERART) and Virtual Reality-task. Based on the scoring on different predictors, features of each antisocial cluster will be described. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| n.a. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed