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Description: Sexual offenders demonstrate errors in judgment and deficits in interpersonal functioning that may be attributed to elevations in obsessional, narcissistic, and schizotypal traits. Twenty-five sexual offenders completed a series of personality measures and were compared to 45 non-offending students and 15 mentally ill offenders. Compared to the control groups, sexual offenders showed significant and expected elevations of obsessional features and more schizotypal features compared to nonoffenders. However, contrary to our hypotheses, narcissism was not found to be elevated in sexual offenders. Implications for the treatment and assessment of psychopathological traits and their relation to sexual offending will be discussed in the article.
Suggested Citation:
Jung, S., & Jamieson, L. (2012). An Exploratory Examination of
Obsessive, Schizotypal, and Narcissistic
Traits Among Sexual Offenders [Electronic Version]. Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice,
8(1), 1-14.
Keywords: sexual offenders, obsessive, schizotypal, narcissistic, forensic
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