Associations of Reversal Learning Performance With Personality Disorder Profile and Drug Abuse History in a Sample of Prison Inmates.

Prison inmate samples present a high prevalence of impulsivity- and compulsivity-related behavioral problems. The Probabilistic Reversal Learning Task (PRLT) is a useful tool to assess decision-making, and we explore its associations with inmates' personality disorder (antisocial personality disorde...

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Published in:Assessment Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 921 - 932
Main Authors: Martín-Ríos, Raquel, Perales, José C., López-Torrecillas, Francisca, Muñoz López, Lucas
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Sep2025
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          Martín-Ríos, Raquel
          Perales, José C.
          López-Torrecillas, Francisca
          Muñoz López, Lucas
        affil: Department of Personality, Assessment and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
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          Personality Disorders Psychosocial Factors
          Substance Abuse Psychosocial Factors
          Learning Methods
          Prisoners
          Correctional Facilities
          Decision Making Evaluation
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Human
          Learning
          Antisocial Personality Disorder
          Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
          Multimethod Studies
      ab: Prison inmate samples present a high prevalence of impulsivity- and compulsivity-related behavioral problems. The Probabilistic Reversal Learning Task (PRLT) is a useful tool to assess decision-making, and we explore its associations with inmates' personality disorder (antisocial personality disorder, APD; obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, OCPD; or both) and history of drug abuse. Mixed-effects methods were used to model acquisition and reacquisition curves across PRLT, in a sample of 275 prison inmates diagnosed with OCPD, APD, or both. Two aspects were assessed: general discrimination learning and decision-making inflexibility. Participants with a mixed personality disorder profile showed a clear pattern of decisional inflexibility. A history of drug abuse was associated with a general poorer performance but not with decision-making inflexibility. Inability to adapt to changing contingencies, and thus to adverse consequences of previously rewarded choices, was not linked to compulsivity, as hypothesized to be present in OCPD and substance use disorders, but to the mixed APD/OCPD profile.
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