Child molestation and psychopathy: a taxometric analysis
| Autor: | Jeffrey Abracen, Jan Looman, Glenn D. Walters, Raymond A. Knight |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Child abuse
050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty 05 social sciences Psychopathy Poison control Human factors and ergonomics 050109 social psychology medicine.disease Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Behavioral Neuroscience Sexual abuse Injury prevention medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychiatry Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sexual Aggression. 22:379-393 |
| ISSN: | 1742-6545 1355-2600 |
| Popis: | Prior taxometric research on child molesters and general sex offenders has produced inconsistent and contradictory results. There are theoretical, practical, and policy reasons, however, to assume that a psychopathy taxon may exist in sex offenders and that a taxometric study might shed light on this issue. The mean above minus below a cut (MAMBAC), maximum covariance (MAXCOV), and latent-mode factor analysis (L-Mode) taxometric procedures were employed in three overlapping samples: 188 sex offenders with non-relative child victims, 555 sex offenders with non-relative child or adolescent victims or child incest victims, and a mixed sample of 1404 sex offenders. The taxometric analyses revealed evidence of continuous latent structure in all three samples. These results suggest that psychopathy in sex offenders, child molesters in particular, is organised quantitatively (continuous) rather than qualitatively (categorical). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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