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Personality variables among sexual offenders with and without diagnosis of paraphilic disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

W. Oronowicz-Jaśkowiak  and
M. Lew-Starowicz
W. Oronowicz-Jaśkowiak*
Affiliation:
Iii Department Of Psychiatry, Instutute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
M. Lew-Starowicz
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, CMKP, Warsaw, Poland
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Sexual offenders are classified in terms of the act they have committed, diagnosis of sexual preference disorder (paraphilic disorder), and the potential motives behind the act. The typology that is often used in forensic-sexological practice is the division into preferential and non-preferential perpetrators, i.e. perpetrators showing or not showing a sexual preference disorder.

Objectives

The aim of the study was to assess whether psychosocial and personality variables significantly differ between the group of preferential and non-preferential sexual offenders.

Methods

The study involved 120 persons, including 60 preferential and 60 non-preferential sexual offenders. The participants were presented with selected, standardized psychological tools to personality traits, self-esteem, life satisfaction, capacity to understand emotions, attachment style.

Results

The study involved 120 persons, including 60 preferential and 60 non-preferential sexual offenders. The participants were presented with selected, standardized psychological tools to personality traits, self-esteem, life satisfaction, capacity to understand emotions, attachment style.

Conclusions

Differences between the both study groups and the male standardization sample suggest worse psychosocial functioning of sexual offenders. A critical analysis of the methodological limitations of this study have been presented.

Conflict of interest

Scientific work was financed from the budget for science in the years 2017-2021, as a research project DI 16/003046 under the programme „Diamond Grant”.

Keywords

paraphilic disorderBig Five personality traits
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S380 - S381
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