The comparision of neuropsychological index related to executive functions in antisocial personality disorder,obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and normal people

The aim of this study is investigation of the neuropsychological index associated with executive function in people with antisocial and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in comparison of normal pepole.
This is a causal-comparative study. By accessible sampling method, 30 prisoners with ASPD, 30 patients with OCPD, and 30 normal people from Semnan city were selected by MCMI and Matchg test. The Stroop, Tower of London and TMT tests were used for collection of data. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Multivariate Analysis Of Variance (MANOVA) and Univariate Analysis of Variance Test (ANOVA) was used.
Results indicated that people with antisocial and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have lower performance in the most of executive functions parameters than normal people. This difference was statistically significant (p0/05).
According to the findings, people with antisocial and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have lower performance in executive function than normal indivithose people.