Assessing the generalization of psychopathy in a clinical sample of domestic violence perpetrators.
This study proposed that domestic violence perpetrators in a clinical sample could be categorized into distinct subgroups and that a particular subgroup of batterers would exhibit sufficient psychopathic characteristics to be clinically meaningful. Participants were interviewed in order to gather a relevant social, familial, educational, criminal, and substance abuse history. They were then administered several psychological measures including the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV). Results lent support to the empirical batterer typology identified by Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Meehan, J. C., Herron, K., Rehman, U., & Stuart, G. L. (2000). However, despite the presence of a more antisocial subgroup, psychopathy did not consistently differentiate among batterers across the measured dependent variables.
Huss
Matthew T
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Department of Psychology, Creighton University, Room 307 Hixon-Lied Science Building, Omaha, NE 68178, USA. mhuss@creighton.edu
Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Jennifer
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D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003710:Demography; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D012008:Recurrence; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires