Личностови разстройства и склонност към гняв и доминиране в юношеска възраст
Personality disorders and tendency to anger and dominance in adolescence

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents two studies of the effects of personality disorders, as defined by the DSM-5 categorical and dimensional perspectives, on anger, dominance, and frustration-anger. The first of these (with 833 adolescents, listwise cases) included narcissistic and sadistic personality disorders, and the second (with 401 adolescents, listwise cases) included five pathological personality traits: negative affect, antagonism, detachment, disinhibition, and psychotism. The effects of two additional variables, fear induction and fearlessness, were also assessed in both studies. In accordance with the ideas about the content of the evaluated constructs, the tested structural models define personality disorders/pathological personality traits as independent variables, frustration-anger as dependent variable, and anger and tendency to dominate as causally related mediators. The evaluation of the structural models shows very good prognostic possibilities in relation to dominance (with 66% and 62% variance explained, with anxiety induction as the main predictor), good, in relation to frustration-anger (with 43% and 40% variance explained, and a stronger effect of anger) and weaker, for anger (with 10% and 32% variance explained, with stronger effects of narcissistic personality disorder and negative affect).

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