Sexual Sadism Among Sex Offenders in Switzerland
| Autor: | Astrid Rossegger, Jay P. Singh, Jérôme Endrass, Juliane Gerth, Leonel C. Gonçalves |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Psychometrics Substance-Related Disorders Validity Sexual Sadism Personality Disorders Risk Assessment Young Adult ddc:150 Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Reliability (statistics) Aged Recidivism Mental Disorders Sex Offenses 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results Sadism Odds ratio Criminals Middle Aged Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health 0509 other social sciences Psychology Sexual Sadism Scale sexual sadism assessment diagnosis recidivism Switzerland Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sexual Abuse. 32:79-100 |
| ISSN: | 1573-286X 1079-0632 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1079063218800473 |
| Popis: | The Sexual Sadism Scale (SeSaS) was developed to assist in the diagnosis of sexual sadism, and it revealed adequate psychometric properties in prior research. This study cross validated the SeSaS in Switzerland using a sample of 179 male sex offenders. Specifically, the SeSaS conformed to a Mokken model of double monotonicity (scalability coefficient [ H] = .46, coefficient of reproducibility [CR] = .89), indicating that it measures a unidimensional construct of sexual sadism with hierarchically ordered items. The reliability of the scale was acceptable to high (ρ = .80, λ2 = .75, κ = .88). In addition, the SeSaS was strongly associated with sexual sadism diagnoses based on mental health manuals ( rpb = .60, odds ratio [OR] = 13.02, area under the curve [AUC] = 1) but not with recidivism. The results suggest that the use of the SeSaS may improve the validity and reliability of sexual sadism diagnoses, therefore playing a role in the assessment and management of sex offenders. |
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