Features of Behavior Dysregulation in Women Committed Socially Dangerous Acts

The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the parameters of selfregulation and the individual typological characteristics of women who committed socially dangerous acts. 25 women who committed socially dangerous acts, recognized as sane, and 27 women who were recognized as insane in relation to their socially dangerous acts were examined in the V. Serbsky National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Narcology (Moscow). The comparison group included 26 women with normal behavior. We studied individual typological features associated with various parameters of self-regulation. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the psychological structure of self-regulation revealed that in the groups of women who committed socially dangerous acts, there were correlations that reflect a violation of behavior regulation. The results show that when the factor of criminalization is added, i.e., the performance of socially dangerous acts, both the total number of correlations of various parameters of self-regulation with individual typological characteristics, the degree of severity of these relationships, and the qualitative characteristics of these combinations decrease: there are fewer and fewer relationships that reflect the safety of certain links of self-regulation. In the group of women who were considered sane, a high level of behavior programming is associated with social desirability and low sensitivity to dangerous or negative stimuli, and a low ability to program behavior is associated with high psychoticism and impulsivity. The evaluation of the results of one's behavior is associated with the desire to improve the opinion of other people about oneself, and the "flexibility" parameter is associated with egocentrism and low sensitivity to dangerous situations. In the group of women who committed socially dangerous acts, recognized as insane, there was a predominance of relationships between the parameters of self-regulation with the activation variables of pleasure and reward, as well as a lack of relationships with the formal dynamic characteristics of psychomotor, intellectual and communicative spheres, which explain the immediacy of behavior and decision-making, and the imbalance of the temperamental foundations of activity. The self-regulation parameters such as "simulation" and "flexibility" reveal a connection with reduced sensitivity to danger, leading to insufficient sorting of positive and negative environmental stimuli that signal possible negative consequences. The results confirm that the violation of behavior regulation is accompanied by a decrease in the number of structural relationships between multi-level characteristics, as well as an increase in those structural relationships that reflect violations of behavior regulation.

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