Description of the Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder within the Framework of Islamic Ethics

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Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Psychology, Research Institute of Quran ‎and Hadith, Qom, Iran (Corresponding Author).‎

2 Instructor, Department of Psychology, Bint al-Huda Higher Education Complex, Qom, Iran.‎

Abstract

The present study was conducted to describe the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in Islamic ethical texts. Given the overlap between the fields of ethics and psychology in describing and reforming antisocial behaviors, it seems essential to describe the psychological symptoms of ASPD based on Islamic ethical concepts. The resulting concepts, by offering an ethical explanation of the disorder, can facilitate the design of therapeutic interventions with an Islamic approach. The method used in this study was qualitative content analysis of two sets of texts: psychological texts that describe and explain ASPD and ethical texts related to the semantic domain of antisocial personality symptoms. In the first part, eight psychological sources were coded, and relevant categories of symptoms were classified. Among the ten resulting categories, four—motivation and purpose, self-control, cognition, and behavioral content—were selected for their significance and broad scope. In the second part, the concepts related to the descriptors of ASPD symptoms were extracted and categorized from Islamic texts based on semantic domains. The findings indicate the presence of 17 descriptors in the category of motivation, 50 in self-control, 24 in cognition, and 21 ethical descriptors in the behavioral content category. Among the ethical concepts, weak intellect, heedlessness, and following one’s desires are considered core concepts in the ethical description and explanation of ASPD symptoms.

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Morality and Psychology
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
August 2025
Pages 137-184

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