Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias

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Autor(a) principal: Jacinto, S.
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Braga. J. N., Ferreira, M. S., Collins, E. C., Krendl, A. C., Lewis, C. C.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29823
Resumo: According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, maladaptive behavior stemming from a psychological disorder should not be attributed to personality. Attribution of behavioral symptoms to personality may undermine treatment-seeking and therapy outcomes and increase the stigmatization of the mentally ill. Although people adjust dispositional inferences given contextual alternative causes, we propose that beliefs in the stability and controllability of mental illness could lead to confounded representations of personality and psychological disorders. In six studies we tested whether people adjust dispositional inferences given a psychological disorder as they do give a physical impairment. Participants made trait ratings from short behavioral descriptions and corresponding contextual accounts. When the putative cause for the behavior was a psychological disorder, people did not reduce the trait inference to the extent they did when the cause was a physical impairment, except when the psychological disorder was presented as controllable/unstable. This suggests a conflation of psychological disorders with personality.
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spelling Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences biasAccording to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, maladaptive behavior stemming from a psychological disorder should not be attributed to personality. Attribution of behavioral symptoms to personality may undermine treatment-seeking and therapy outcomes and increase the stigmatization of the mentally ill. Although people adjust dispositional inferences given contextual alternative causes, we propose that beliefs in the stability and controllability of mental illness could lead to confounded representations of personality and psychological disorders. In six studies we tested whether people adjust dispositional inferences given a psychological disorder as they do give a physical impairment. Participants made trait ratings from short behavioral descriptions and corresponding contextual accounts. When the putative cause for the behavior was a psychological disorder, people did not reduce the trait inference to the extent they did when the cause was a physical impairment, except when the psychological disorder was presented as controllable/unstable. This suggests a conflation of psychological disorders with personality.Wiley2023-11-28T11:17:40Z2021-01-01T00:00:00Z20212023-11-28T11:16:33Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/29823eng0021-902910.1111/jasp.12821Jacinto, S.Braga. J. N.Ferreira, M. S.Collins, E. C.Krendl, A. C.Lewis, C. C.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-03T01:18:52Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/29823Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T00:40:41.842707Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
spellingShingle Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
Jacinto, S.
title_short Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
title_full Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
title_fullStr Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
title_full_unstemmed Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
title_sort Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias
author Jacinto, S.
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Braga. J. N.
Ferreira, M. S.
Collins, E. C.
Krendl, A. C.
Lewis, C. C.
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Ferreira, M. S.
Collins, E. C.
Krendl, A. C.
Lewis, C. C.
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Braga. J. N.
Ferreira, M. S.
Collins, E. C.
Krendl, A. C.
Lewis, C. C.
description According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, maladaptive behavior stemming from a psychological disorder should not be attributed to personality. Attribution of behavioral symptoms to personality may undermine treatment-seeking and therapy outcomes and increase the stigmatization of the mentally ill. Although people adjust dispositional inferences given contextual alternative causes, we propose that beliefs in the stability and controllability of mental illness could lead to confounded representations of personality and psychological disorders. In six studies we tested whether people adjust dispositional inferences given a psychological disorder as they do give a physical impairment. Participants made trait ratings from short behavioral descriptions and corresponding contextual accounts. When the putative cause for the behavior was a psychological disorder, people did not reduce the trait inference to the extent they did when the cause was a physical impairment, except when the psychological disorder was presented as controllable/unstable. This suggests a conflation of psychological disorders with personality.
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