Personality dysfunction linked to future aggression in daily life: Findings from two experience sampling studies.

Abstract

Violence risk assessment has often included personality constructs to better understand pathways toward violence, though most of this work has been done through cross-sectional designs and under the assumption that personality is a static, universally applicable risk factor. The present research uses the alternative model for personality disorders to examine how it is related to aggressive behaviors in daily life and on a day-to-day basis. In two combined 14-daily diary studies (n = 526), baseline personality dysfunction was related to acts of aggression in daily life. Daily and aggregated alternative model for personality disorders psychopathology correlated positively with aggressive behaviors. We discuss the clinical implications of using experience sampling methodologies to examine temporally dynamic modifiable risk factors for violence.

Applications of the alternative model for personality disorders to threat assessment.

“…Natoli et al (2023) then take a severity-matching approach to examine the association between AMPD trait and violence risk relative to normative (i.e., Big Five) traits. In contrast to these studies, which were both cross-sectional and focused on Criterion B (i.e., AMPD traits), Roche et al (2023) use experience-sampling methods to examine the association between Criteria A and B of the AMPD via a 2-week daily diary study. Finally, Mulay, Natoli, et al (2023) highlight the applications of the AMPD and its place in the larger threat assessment paradigm by conceptualizing QAnon ideology as an extreme overvalued belief and argued that the radicalization seen in its adherents should be cause for concern within the law enforcement and threat assessment community.…”