A comparison of anxiety and depression in sex offenders with intellectual disability and a control group with intellectual disability.
The aims of this study were to employ modified versions of the 21-item Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories with a group of 16 sex offenders with mild intellectual disability and borderline intelligence and 16 control participants with similar levels of intellectual disability. Test-retest correlations found high reliability for both assessments across all participants. There was a significant differences between the scores of the 2 groups with the sex offenders reporting significantly lower levels of anxiety and depression than the control participants. The results are discussed by presenting hypotheses on the emotional stability in each group.
Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust, Clinical Psychology Department, University of Abertay-Dundee Scotland, United Kingdom. bill.lindsay@tpct.scot.nhs.uk
William R
WR
Lindsay
Melanie S
MS
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D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*