Analysis of the Need Systems of Twenty Male Rapists
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 51 (3_suppl) , 1119-1125
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.51.3f.1119
Abstract
15 needs from Murray's theoretical work (1938) were used to assess and analyze the need systems of 20 men convicted of forcible rape and compared to those of a control group of 20 violent, but non-sex, offenders. Three instruments were used: Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, the TAT, and a semi-structured interview. As predicted, the over-all need profiles of the rapists and the non-rapists were statistically non-parallel on two of the three instruments. Rapists also differed significantly on four specific needs on two of the three instruments. These results are discussed with relation to psychoanalytic theory.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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