Original Articles

Personality Disorder in Convicted Jamaican Murderers

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.041

Pages:

453–7

Synopsis:

Examination and analysis of primary data from the psychosocial case study interviews of 36 convicted murderers from the Jamaican Government Barnett Commission of Enquiry in 1976 using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition-text revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria revealed antisocial personality disorder in two-thirds of the convicted murderers and suggest that antisocial personality disorder represents an aetiological precursor of homicidal violence and is a major public health problem in onntemporary Jamaica.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the aetiology and historical prevalance of personality disorder in violent homicidal men in Jamaica.

Received:

25 Feb, 2013

Accepted:

02 Apr, 2013

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Original Articles

Keywords:

Antisocial personality disorder

convicted murderers

Jamaica public health

Journal Authors:

FW Hickling

G Walcott

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Prevalence and Correlates of Personality Disorder in the Jamaican Population

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.067

Pages:

443–7

Synopsis:

A demographic questionnaire and the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) were administered to a representative population sample consisting of 1506 Jamaicans, ages 18–64 years. Two-fifths of the population scored above the scale’s cut-point indicating a diagnosis of personality disorder with the level of severity ranging from mild to severe. This suggests a high risk of behavioural dysfunction in the Jamaican population, with significant implications in light of the country’s high rate of crime and violence.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To identify the prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in a representative sample of the Jamaican population using the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI).

Received:

05 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

25 Mar, 2013

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Media Representation of Personality Disorder in Jamaica – Public Scholarship as a Catalyst of Health Promotion

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.160

Pages:

448–52

Synopsis:

A two-year trawl of contemporary Jamaican news media articles linking the medical diagnosis of personality disorder to published public scholarship articles on the epidemiology of that condition was conducted. Results suggest that public scholarship reports of this condition prompted a popular media response which in turn generated a health promotion outcome linking contemporary social events to the contemporary medical search on personality disorder.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To ascertain whether the public scholarship of the epidemiology of personality disorder (PD) in Jamaica prompted a health promotion outcome.

Received:

22 May, 2013

Accepted:

01 Jun, 2013

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Journal Authors:

HA Robertson-Hickling

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Are Jamaicans Really That Stigmatizing? A Comparison of Mental Health Help-seeking Attitudes

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.074

Pages:

437–42

Synopsis:

Jamaican attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help were compared with other samples that utilized the same measure of attitudes. Although Jamaicans seem to hold negative opinions about mental illness, helpseeking attitudes were comparable and in some cases, more favourable.

ABSTRACT

Received:

05 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

24 Jul, 2013

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Keywords:

Mental health help-seeking

stigma

Journal Authors:

D Jackson Williams

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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The Treatment of Personality Disorder in Jamaica with Psychohistoriographic Brief Psychotherapy

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.093

Pages:

431–6

Synopsis:

One hundred patients seen in the author’s private practice from 1974–2010 with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis of personality disorder were treated with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP). Patients with personality disorders showed clinical improvement one year after being treated with PBP.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess the clinical outcome of patients with personality disorder, receiving treatment with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP).

Received:

10 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Dec, 2013

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Journal Sections:

Original Articles

Keywords:

Jamaica

personality disorder

psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy

Journal Authors:

FW Hickling

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Studying Personality and Personality Disorders among People in the Caribbean: Advocating for an Emic-Etic Approach

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.043

Pages:

427–30

Synopsis:

This article problematizes the discussion of personality and personalitydisorder, considering how these phenomena are defined, and may manifest in contexts that are underrepresented in extant scholarship on personality and personality disorder. After providing a brief critical review of key findings and debates in the scholarship on normal personality, we discuss the need for combined emic-etic approaches to normal and non-normal personality in underrepresented and understudied contexts, and offer suggestions for programmes of research committed to these tasks.

ABSTRACT

Received:

25 Feb, 2013

Accepted:

02 Apr, 2013

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Interpersonal Competence and Sex Risk Behaviours among Jamaican Adolescents

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.061

Pages:

423–6

Synopsis:

This article investigated the correlation between interpersonal competence and sex risk behaviours among 500 adolescents from nine randomly selected secondary institutions in Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica. Results indicate that adolescents with high interpersonal skills are less likely to participate in risky sexual behaviours.

ABSTRACT

Received:

05 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

22 Apr, 2013

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Keywords:

Adolescent sexuality

emotional intelligence

interpersonal skills

risky sexual behaviours

Journal Authors:

S Longman-Mills

K Carpenter

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Correlates of Psychosexual Issues in the Jamaican Population

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.138

Pages:

417–22

Synopsis:

The correlates of psychosexual phenomenology in the Jamaican population using the seven questions of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) are presented. More than one-fifth of the sample reported some degree of heterosexual and homosexual dysfunction. Significant levels of multiple sexual partnerships and feelings of infidelity in a swathe of Jamaican people reveal underlying psychosexual anxiety and guilt, poor impulse control and difficulties with partner intimacy.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To examine the relationship between the psychopathological correlates of psychosexual phenomena in post-colonial Jamaica.

Received:

07 May, 2013

Accepted:

10 May, 2013

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Keywords:

Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI)

conflict

Jamaican population

psychosexual dysfunction

Journal Authors:

G Walcott

FW Hickling

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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The Psychological Correlates of Dependency in the Jamaican Population

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.110

Pages:

411–6

Synopsis:

The correlates of the phenomenology of dependency in the Jamaican population using the 17 questions of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) are reported. One-quarter of the sample population studied reported problems with physiological and psychological dependency behaviour suggesting that they are still locked in a struggle for psychological independence.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the prevalence of psychological dependency in the Jamaican society in order to examine the relationship between the psychological correlates of dependency and socio-political dependency in this post-colonial country.

Received:

12 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Apr, 2013

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Keywords:

personality disorder

Dependency

Jamaican Personality Disorder Inventory

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Correlates of Conflict, Power and Authority Management, Aggression and Impulse Control in the Jamaican Population

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.123

Pages:

405–10

Synopsis:

The correlates of the phenomenology of conflict, power and authority management in the Jamaican population of 1506 adult individuals were sampled from 2150 households using the 12 questions of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI). Nearly one third of the sample population studied reported problems with conflict, abnormal power and authority management, impulse control and serious aggressive and transgressive behaviour.

ABSTRACT

Objective: The object of this study is to establish the correlates of the phenomenology of conflict and power management in the Jamaican population.

Received:

17 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Apr, 2013

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