@article{ref1,
title="Psychopathy and sexual sadism",
journal="Law and human behavior",
year="2011",
author="Mokros, Andreas and Osterheider, Michael and Hucker, Stephen J. and Nitschke, Joachim",
volume="35",
number="3",
pages="188-199",
abstract="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. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="",
issn="0147-7307",
doi="10.1007/s10979-010-9221-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10979-010-9221-9"
}