Antisocial personality disorder

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Risk factors

By Mayo Clinic staff

Although the precise cause of antisocial personality disorder isn't known, certain factors seem to increase the risk of developing or triggering antisocial personality disorder, including:

  • Being diagnosed with childhood conduct disorder
  • A family history of antisocial personality disorder or other personality disorders or mental illness
  • Being subjected to verbal, physical or sexual abuse during childhood
  • Having an unstable or chaotic family life during childhood
  • Loss of parents through death or traumatic divorce during childhood
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