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- The study examined personality traits of 603 violent offenders, categorized into child molesters, rapists, and non-sexually aggressive felons.
- Child molesters exhibited traits like dependency, anxiety, and depression, whereas both rapists and non-sexually aggressive felons showed more narcissistic and independent personalities with less psychological distress.
- The results support previous findings from the MMPI test, indicating that rapists share more personality similarities with non-sexually aggressive felons than with child molesters.
Article Abstract
The MCMI was administered to 603 recently convicted violent offenders, grouped according to nature of the offense into child molesters (n = 201), rapists (n = 195), and non-sexually aggressive felons (n = 205). Both groups of sexual offenders were more passive-aggressive, but child molesters were more dependent, anxious, and depressed than the other two groups, whose personality style was more narcissistic and independent with little psychic distress. Results confirm earlier findings based on MMPI test results, which show that the personality styles of rapists are more similar to those of non-sexually aggressive felons than to those of child molesters. Test variance can no longer be the basis for these replicated findings.
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