Exploring the Causes of Mental Illness by Analysis of Congenital and Acquired Factors

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10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

causation; psychopathy; biological; environmental; trauma

Abstract

The psychopathic disorder was conceptualized as a mental (antisocial) condition in which a person exhibits amoral and antisocial conduct, a lack of ability to love or form meaningful human connections, lack of guilt and empathy, excessive egocentrism, and an inability to learn from experience, among other characteristics and other symptoms. Antisocial behaviors were defined as physical violence, stealing, and violation of social standards that occur outside the norms, rules, or laws of the social group in which the person grows. The core of psychopathy was characterized as “callousunemotional” traits (e.g., lack of empathy, low fear, insensitivity to punishment) as the major predictor of chronic and severe aggression. All of those correlate with either nature or nurture determined as biological or environmental aspects. The studies are based on infants, early childhood, youths, adolescents, and how inborn gender differences, environmental development as well as trauma exposure or brain trauma contribute the adult psychopathy later on. This paper uses those qualitative researches and a summary of relevant literature to analyse both nature and nurture factors that related to mental illness. As the result, biological and environmental are both played a significant role, while as child maltreatment as harsh parenting style such as neglecting, child abuse etcetera represents as the fail failures of care is the most common and remarkable developmental aspect along with the childhood experience to adult psychopathy.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziqian Hong
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/29
TI  - Exploring the Causes of Mental Illness by Analysis of Congenital and Acquired Factors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 747
EP  - 752
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.125
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.125
ID  - Hong2022
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