@article{ref1,
title="Aggression, impulsivity, personality traits, and childhood trauma of prisoners with substance abuse and addiction",
journal="American journal of drug and alcohol abuse encompassing all addictive disorders",
year="2008",
author="Cuomo, Chiara and Sarchiapone, Marco and di Giannantonio, Massimo and Mancini, M. and Roy, Alec",
volume="34",
number="3",
pages="339-345",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: The aim of our study is then to analyze psychological and judicial features of a subgroup of inmates with substance abuse. METHODS: Prisoners with substance abuse (n = 312) were compared to prisoners without substance abuse (n = 591). Recruited inmates completed a semistructured interview for collection of sociodemographic and judicial data and a battery of psychometric tests for assessement of aggression, impulsivity, depression, personality traits, hostility, resilience, and childhood trauma. RESULTS: Substance abusers had on average multiple incarcerations (78.8%), more juvenile convictions (60.2%), more violent behaviors during detention (29.8%), and a history of one or more suicide attempts (20.8%). They also had higher scores on subscales for childhood trauma, higher scores for psychoticism and neuroticism, higher impulsivity levels, worse resilience, increased hostility, and prevalent suicidal ideation. CONCLUSION: Prisoners with substance abuse constitute a subgroup with increased judiciary and psychiatric issues, possibly due to early life history and psychological characteristics, such as high impulsivity and aggressiveness, poor resilience, and higher suicidal risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0095-2990",
doi="10.1080/00952990802010884",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00952990802010884"
}