TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the generalization of psychopathy in a clinical sample of domestic violence perpetrators
AU - Huss, Matthew T.
AU - Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding from a National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant R03 MH058929-01, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a Creighton University Summer Research Fellowship supported portions of this research.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10979-006-9052-x
DO - 10.1007/s10979-006-9052-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 17031606
AN - SCOPUS:33749627380
VL - 30
SP - 571
EP - 586
JO - Law and Human Behavior
JF - Law and Human Behavior
SN - 0147-7307
IS - 5
ER -