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Rittmannsberger, Doris; Weber, Germain; Lueger-Schuster, Brigitte – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Socio-interpersonal factors have a strong potential to protect individuals against pathological processing of traumatic events. While perceived social support has emerged as an important protective factor, this effect has not been replicated in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). One reason for this might be that the relevance of…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Social Support Groups
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Mokros, Andreas; Schilling, Frank; Eher, Reinhard; Nitschke, Joachim – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SSSS) is a screening device for the file-based assessment of forensically relevant sexual sadism. The SSSS consists of 11 dichotomous (yes/no) items that code behavioral indicators of severe sexual sadism within sexual offenses. Based on an Austrian sample of 105 sexual offenders, the present study replicated the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Clinical Diagnosis
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Berner, Wolfgang; And Others – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1992
In sample of 30 consecutively admitted sex offenders at treatment facility inside Austrian prison system, found 23 patients with diagnosis of personality disorder. Distribution of diagnoses did not differ significantly from other samples found in general outpatient clinic with exception of relatively high rate of sadistic personality disorder…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Criminals, Foreign Countries, Personality Problems