Mokros, Andreas and Schilling, Frank and Eher, Reinhard and Nitschke, Joachim (2012) The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale: Cross-Validation and Scale Properties. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 24 (3). pp. 764-769. ISSN 1040-3590
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The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SSSS) is a screening device for the file-based assessment of forensically relevant sexual sadism. The SSSS consists of 11 dichotomous (yes/no) items that code behavioral indicators of severe sexual sadism within sexual offenses. Based on an Austrian sample of 105 sexual offenders, the present study replicated the 1-dimensional scale structure of the SSSS, as evidenced by confirmatory factor analysis. More specifically, the scale was commensurate with the 1-parameter logistic test model (Rasch model). Reliability was estimated to be good. Criterion validity for the clinical diagnosis of sexual sadism was good. With a cutoff value of 7 points, sensitivity and specificity were estimated at 56% and 90%, respectively.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | OFFENDERS; RELIABILITY; RECIDIVISM; BEHAVIOR; FEATURES; CRITERIA; FANTASY; sexual sadism; scale development; Rasch; psychometrics; sensitivity |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 25 May 2022 06:00 |
| Last Modified: | 25 May 2022 06:00 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/18193 |
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