Maladaptive antisocial aggressive behavior and outlets for intimacy.
Psychotherapy research literature suggests that maladjustment and self-disclosure patterns are related. Male psychiatric patients (23-37 years) were selected according to a stratified random sampling procedure with conditions for Ss: (a) who actually have engaged in maladaptive antisocial aggression (N = 41); (b) who exhibited aggressive impulses, urges, or fantasies (N = 111); and (c) who served as patient (N = 105) and non-patient (N = 137) controls. Results of this study supported the prediction that those patients who actually engaged in maladaptive antisocial aggression employed fewer outlets for self-disclosure than any of the other patient or non-patient groupings. Clinical implications that concerned the actual range of an individual's outlets for intimacy as predictive of maladaptive antisocial aggression in male adults were discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005201:Fantasy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012650:Self Disclosure; D014705:Verbal Behavior