Dombert, Beate and Antfolk, Jan and Kallvik, Lisa and Zappala, Angelo and Osterheider, Michael and Mokros, Andreas and Santtila, Pekka (2017) Identifying Pedophilic Interest in Sex Offenders Against Children With the Indirect Choice Reaction Time Task. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 33 (5). pp. 345-351. ISSN 1015-5759, 2151-2426
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Pedophilia - a disorder of sexual preference with primary sexual interest in prepubescent children - is forensically relevant yet difficult to detect using self-report methods. The present study evaluated the criterion validity of the Choice Reaction Time (CRT) task to differentiate between a sample of child sex offenders with a presumably high rate of pedophilic individuals and three control groups (other sex offenders, non-sex offenders, and community controls, all male; N = 233). The CRT task required locating a dot superimposed on images depicting men, women, girls, or boys and scrambled pictures as quickly as possible. We used two picture sets, the Not Real People (NRP) set and the Virtual People Set (VPS). We predicted sexually relevant pictures to elicit longer reaction times in interaction with the participant group. Both CRTs showed main effects of stimulus explicitness and preferred stimulus gender. The CRT-NRP also yielded an interaction effect of participant group and stimulus maturity while the CRT-VPS showed a tendency in this direction. The overall effect size was moderate. Results offer support for the usefulness of the CRT task in forensic assessment of child sex offenders.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VISUAL PRESENTATION TASK; CONTENT-INDUCED DELAY; SELF-REPORT; AROUSAL; PREFERENCE; RECIDIVISM; MOLESTERS; ATTENTION; STIMULI; child sex offenders; pedophilia; indirect measure; choice reaction time; CRT |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Abteilung für Forensische Psychiatrie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2019 13:58 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1209 |
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