Citation

Lee SY, Lim MH, Lee J, Shim G, Kim Y, Do JA, Lee SJ, Choi JH, Lee JW. Psychiatry Investig. 2017; 14(2): 166-171.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, National Forensic Hospital, Gongju, Republic of Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Korean Neuropsychiatric Association)

DOI

10.4306/pi.2017.14.2.166

PMID

28326114

PMCID

PMC5355014

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the personality characteristics in parricide offenders, by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, which is commonly used in clinical medicine.

METHODS: A total of 73 parricide offenders with schizophrenia who were admitted to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city between September 2014 and February 2015, and 104 comparison schizophrenia patients who had been admitted to Dankook University Hospital in Cheonan city the same hospital, completed the Korean version of the MMPI.

RESULTS: The parricide offender group showed significantly higher on L, F, Hs, Hy and Pd than the comparison group. The result of the regression analysis indicated that Pd and Si significantly increased the odd ratio of the sexual offender group by 2.77 times and 0.32 times, respectively (p=0.029 and p=0.023). The offenders of parricide may have developed the following characteristics: hypochondriasis, hysteria and psychopathic deviate.

CONCLUSION: These results suggested that the psychopatholgy in the offenders of parricide might be different, compared to the control group.

Language: en

Keywords

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Offenders of parricide; Psychopathology; Schizophrenia