Mokros, Andreas and Osterheider, Michael and Hucker, Stephen J. and Nitschke, Joachim (2011) Psychopathy and Sexual Sadism. LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 35 (3). pp. 188-199. ISSN 0147-7307,
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Psychopathic personality disorder and sexual sadism share several common characteristics, such as emotional detachment from the suffering of others or the preparedness to inflict pain or injuries. Based on a sample of 100 male forensic patients (all of them sex offenders, half of them sadistic), the concept of psychopathy and sexual sadism as a unified construct was tested empirically. Pooling indicator variables for psychopathic and sexually sadistic disorders showed that a two-factorial solution yielded a better fit than a single-factor model. The two factors identified psychopathy and sexual sadism as separate latent variables. More specifically, the data were compatible with a path model in which affective deficits and behavioral disinhibition of the psychopathy domain are precursors to sexually sadistic conduct.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; CRITERION-RELATED VALIDITY; PERSONALITY-DISORDER; PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; CONFLUENCE MODEL; OFFENDERS; BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; CHECKLIST; AROUSAL; Psychopathy; Sexual sadism; Empathy; Emotion; Rasch |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Abteilung für Forensische Psychiatrie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2020 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2020 14:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/20783 |
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