Substance abusers' personality disorders and staff members' emotional reactions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research has indicated that aggressive behaviour and DSM-IV cluster B personality disorders (PD) may be associated with professionals' emotional reactions to clients, and that cluster C PD may be associated with positive emotional reactions.

Methods

Staff members recruited from workshops completed a self-report inventory of emotional reactions to patients, the Feeling Word Checklist-58, and substance abusers completed a self-report of DSM-IV personality disorder, the DSM-IV and ICD-10 Personality Disorder Questionnaire. Correlational analysis and multiple regression analysis was used to assess the associations between personality disorders and emotional reations.

Results

Cluster B disorder features were associated with feeling distance to patients,

SUBMITTER: Thylstrup B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2322971 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature