Implicit Gender Bias in the Clinical Judgment of Psychopathy and Personality Disorders among Licensed Psychologists in the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21352199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Bruce (0000-0001-9505-034X, Forensic Psychology Program, The George Washington University, Alexandria, Virginia), David Weinraub (Forensic Psychology Program, The George Washington University, Alexandria, Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 763-769 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality Assessment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3891 • E-ISSN: 1532-7752 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00223891.2023.2178928 |
| PMID | 36857100 |
| OpenAlex | W4322719869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
The role of implicit gender bias in the assessment of mental disorders remains a contentious and consequential issue. Inaccurate assessment of psychopathy and personality disorders (PD) among health care professionals can have deleterious consequences with respect to treatment access and planning, as well as legal decision making within forensic settings. Using a quantitative cross-sectional experimental design, 180 licensed psychologists from the USA were recruited via email using non-probability convenience sampling. Implicit gender bias was measured by randomly assigning participants to one of two experimental conditions (i.e., male vs. female pronoun case vignette). While adjusted logistic regression models confirmed significant associations between gender pronoun of case vignette and clinical judgment of PDs, this was not supported for psychopathy. Licensed psychologists were significantly more likely to render a judgment of borderline PD in the female, compared to the male, gender pronoun condition. Conversely, they were significantly more likely to render a judgment of antisocial PD in the male, compared to the female, gender pronoun condition. These findings suggest that despite progress in the understanding of gender role behaviors, personality disorders, and clinical training protocols, implicit gender bias persists among licensed psychologists in the USA
Antisocial personality disorder · Borderline personality disorder · Injury prevention · Logistic regression · Personality · Personality disorders · Poison control · Pronoun · Psychopathy · Vignette · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |