Social desirability, deceptive reporting, and awareness of problematic aggression in intermittent explosive disorder compared with non-aggressive healthy and psychiatric controls.

摘要: Individuals with DSM-5 Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) are often suspected of minimizing the nature their recurrent, problematic, impulsive aggressive behavior due to social undesirability these behaviors. Our first study involved 400 participants categorized as Healthy Controls (HC), Psychiatric (PC) and having IED included Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale (SDS), Lie from Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R Lie), Readiness Change (Anger) Questionnaire (RTC). had lower SDS EPQ-R scores, while higher RTC compared both HC PC participants. Thus, when studied in a clinical research setting, do not provide socially desirable answers questions engaging deceptive reporting; likely because they have recognized need/interest reducing own behavior. The second study, part family 70 probands first-degree relatives revealed very high positive (96.3%), but substantially negative (55.8%), predictive power for based on informant report. This suggests that, interview close informants can confirm diagnosis IED, interviews cannot rule out such