Nitschke, Joachim and Osterheider, Michael and Mokros, Andreas (2009) A Cumulative Scale of Severe Sexual Sadism. SEXUAL ABUSE-A JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, 21 (3). pp. 262-278. ISSN 1079-0632,
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The article assesses the scale properties of the criterion set for severe sexual sadism in a sample of male forensic patients (N = 100). Half of the sample consists of sexual sadists; the remainder is sampled at random from the general group of nonsadistic sex offenders. Eleven of 17 criteria (plus the additional item of inserting objects into the victim's bodily orifices) of Marshall, Kennedy, Yates, and Serran's list form a cumulative scale. More specifically, this scale comprises all the 5 core criteria that Marshall and his colleagues considered particularly relevant. The resulting 11-item scale of severe sexual sadism is highly reliable (r(tt) = .93) and represents a strong scale (H = .83) of the Guttman type (coefficient of reproducibility = .97). The 11-item scale distinguishes perfectly between sexual sadists and nonsadistic sex offenders in the sample.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RELIABILITY; OFFENDERS; sexual sadism; scale; Mokken; Guttman |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Abteilung für Forensische Psychiatrie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2020 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 08:22 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/28548 |
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