Psychopathology of incarcerated sex offenders
| Autor: | Paul Retzlaff, Dennis Kleinsasser, John Stoner, Sean Ahlmeyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Population Sadistic personality disorder Personality Disorders Severity of Illness Index Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Personality Humans education Psychiatry media_common education.field_of_study Analysis of Variance Mental Disorders Prisoners Sex Offenses Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Neuroticism Personality disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Anxiety Sex offense medicine.symptom Psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of personality disorders. 17(4) |
| ISSN: | 0885-579X |
| Popis: | The psychopathology and particularly the personality disorders of sex offenders were compared to general inmates of the Colorado Department of Corrections. Using the MCMI-III (Millon, 1994, 1997), sex offenders in general were found to have more varied types of personalities than general population inmates. Specifically, they were more schizoid, avoidant, depressive, dependent, self-defeating, and schizotypal. General population inmates had the more classically criminal personality characteristics of antisocial, narcissistic, and sadistic. Multivariate analysis showed the Dependent, Narcissistic, Antisocial, and Schizotypal scales to be the most differentiating. Sex offenders were also found to have more affective psychopathology such as anxiety, dysthymia, PTSD, and major depression. A similar trend was found when comparing child molesters to rapists. The child molesters were more neurotic, affective, and socially impaired than the rapists. Multivariate analysis showed the Dependent scale to be the most important in differentiating these two types of sex offenders. |
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