Personality Differences Among Child Molesters

1 January 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment

Vol. 39 (6) , 591-593
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa3906_7

Abstract

Summary: This study compared the MMPI profiles of two groups of child molesters, those with no prior arrests versus those with one or more prior arrests, in order to assess certain clinically derived inferences about these offenders. The sample consisted of 33 persons convicted of child molestation. The group with prior arrests showed more psychopathology than the group with no previous arrests.

Keywords

MOLESTERS
CHILD MOLESTATION
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES
PRIOR ARRESTS
MMPI PROFILES

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Exhibitionism, Sexual Violence and Paedophilia
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
Sociometric study of the sex offender.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1969