Adult psychopathy and violent behavior in males with early neglect and abuse

Objective:  Within a Swedish longitudinal project, possible implications of childhood neglect and/or abuse on adult psychopathy checklist (PCL) scores and violent offending were studied. Method:  The subjects were males (n=199), recruited from a socially high‐risk neighborhood and grouped on an inde...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 2002, Vol.106 (s412), p.93-100
Hauptverfasser: Lang, S., Af Klinteberg, B., Alm, P.-O.
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Zusammenfassung:Objective:  Within a Swedish longitudinal project, possible implications of childhood neglect and/or abuse on adult psychopathy checklist (PCL) scores and violent offending were studied. Method:  The subjects were males (n=199), recruited from a socially high‐risk neighborhood and grouped on an index variable of victimization, yielding high (n=110) and low victimization (n=89) groups. To highlight a possible comorbidity of all three problems in the same persons, a combined dimensional and categorical (configural frequency analysis, CFA) approach was applied. Results:  The high victimization subjects exerted significantly more violence, as did subjects with high PCL scores. Furthermore, in the CFA two significant ‘types’ were found: one type indicating that ‘high’ victimization in childhood is closely linked to later ‘extensive’ violence and ‘high’ PCL scores at adult age in the same individuals; the other supporting a frequent co‐occurring of ‘low’ victimization in childhood, ‘none or minor’ later indications of violence and ‘low’ adult PCL scores. Conclusion:  The results point to possible underlying mechanisms linked to all three problems characterizing the affected subjects.
ISSN:0001-690X
0065-1591
1600-0447
DOI:10.1034/j.1600-0447.106.s412.20.x