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In a family with somatic symptom disorder, the male relatives are at increased risk for antisocial personality disorder. What are the underlying characteristics that tie these disorders together?
 
  a. mania and psychasthenia
  b. extraversion and agreeableness
  c. sensation seeking and irresponsibility
  d. absence of inhibition and high negative emotion

Question 2

Which of these individuals is most likely to suffer from somatic symptom disorder?
 
  a. Eight-year-old Alice, who is from an upper socioeconomic background and is in grade-school at this time
  b. Sixty-five-year-old Harry, who is from a lower socioeconomic background and has two college degrees
  c. Fifty-year-old John, who is from an upper socioeconomic background and has a doctoral degree in education
  d. Twenty-two-year-old Mary, who is from a lower socioeconomic background and has eight years of education



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d.



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