TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Psychopathy and sexual sadism
JO  - Law and human behavior
A1  - Mokros, Andreas
A1  - Osterheider, Michael
A1  - Hucker, Stephen J.
A1  - Nitschke, Joachim
SP  - 188
EP  - 199
VL  - 35
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0147-7307
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10979-010-9221-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -