Thank you for providing these articles. I would like to pay particular attention to
Newbury-Helps et al. (2017). As we continue to explore antisocial personality
disorder (ASPD) and formulate our how hypothesis, I believe we may need to look
at the supportive factor’s children had during school that are currently diagnosed
with ASPD. We know that the ASPD is, or at least I have not found new research
that states otherwise, that the most common personality disorder associated with
both remitted and persisting diagnoses of ADHD in adulthood (Miller et al. 2008).
Knowing this, perhaps our research can begin to identify the perceived areas of
social support that our ASPD sample did not feel experience at home, school, and
extracurricular activities. This would allow us to begin parsing out the correlation
of ADHD between ASPD considering Newbury-Helps (2017) identified social
cognition impairment as a main challenge in ASPD sufferers. Moreover, we could
adapt the SSQ to have our participants (control and experimental group) answer
these questions based on how they would have answered them during their
childhood. This would then allow us to explore the relationship
Moreover, we could adapt the SSQ to be answered retrospectively by four groups:
1) No history of ADHD or ASPD, 2) Remitted ADHD, 3) persisting ADHD/no ASPD,
and 4) current ASPD diagnosis. We would then gain insight into the correlation
between both ADHD and ASPD with social support in childhood, allowing us to
formulate succeeding research that focuses on early intervention of social
support for individuals with ADHD with the longitudinal goal of reducing the
likelihood of ASPD.
Sit with this for a couple weeks and we will reconvene to further hone and
formulate additional findings and alterations we would like to make to mine and
your theories.
Miller, C. J., Flory, J. D., Miller, S. R., Harty, S. C., Newcorn, J. H., & Halperin, J. M.
(2008). Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the emergence of
personality disorders in adolescence: a prospective follow-up study. Journal of
Clinical Psychiatry, 69(9), 1477–1484.
Newbury-Helps, J., Feigenbaum, J., & Fonagy, P. (2017). Offenders with antisocial
personality disorder display more impairments in mentalizing. Journal of
Personality Disorders, 31(2), 232-255. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2016_30_246
