Relationship between pathological personality traits based on DSM-5 (PID-5) and psychotic experiences of abused women referred to forensic medicine

Psychotic experiences have a significant relationship with a wide range of mental health problems and the predictors of these experiences have received less attention. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between pathological personality traits based on DSM-5 (PID-5) and psychotic experiences of abused women referred to forensic medicine.

This study was descriptive-correlational. The sample included 331 women who were referred to mental health centers, who claimed to have been abused by their husbands. Also, forensic physicians confirmed the injuries after a medical examination. They were selected by convenience sampling method in the 2020 year. Participants answered the 16-item version of the prodromal questionnaire and the personality inventory for DSM-5-short form (PID-5-SF). Research data were analyzed using SPSS22 software and multiple regression analysis.

The results of regression analysis showed that the five variables of psychoticism, disinhibition, dissociation, opposition, and negative emotions predict psychotic experiences and together explain 39% of the variance of psychotic experiences.

The findings of this study confirmed the relationship between pathological personality traits based on DSM-5 (PID-5) and psychotic experiences of abused women referred to forensic medicine. Findings also emphasize the need for personality traits to be considered by specialists, therapists and planners when working with abused women, and especially in counseling and treatment centers in the IPV study, because such factors are likely to affect the occurrence and persistence of various forms of psychopathology.