Unfeeling or Uncontrolled? PCL-R Subfactor-Specific Anomalies in Psychological Processing During Criminal Behavior.

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI:10.1177/0306624X241281969

Marie Joséphine Hamatschek, Klaus-Peter Dahle

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Abstract

Psychopathy has been linked to insensitivity to negative affect as well as to a self-regulatory deficit. However, studies on these associations rarely involve real-life behavioral data. Using a theory-based content analysis of offense descriptions in criminal verdicts, the affective and regulatory processes that male German prison inmates (N = 109) displayed during criminal norm-violations were coded. Their PCL-R scores were split up into the interpersonal-affective (F1) and the lifestyle-antisocial (F2) factors. As expected, F1 was associated with positive (as opposed to negative) activation affect during criminal behavior (τ = .32, p < .001), while F2 was not. In contrast, F2 was associated with impulsive reactivity (τ = .14, p = .03), while F1 was not. No differential association was found with angry emotionality. Overall, the bifactorial nature of the PCL-R psychopathy construct seems to be reflected in psychological processing during real-life criminal behavior. This might indicate differential criminogenic processes.

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无情还是失控？犯罪行为过程中心理处理的 PCL-R 子因子特异性异常。

精神变态与对负面情绪不敏感以及自我调节能力不足有关。然而，有关这些关联的研究很少涉及现实生活中的行为数据。通过对刑事判决中的犯罪描述进行基于理论的内容分析，我们对德国监狱男性囚犯（109 人）在违反刑事规范时表现出的情感和调节过程进行了编码。他们的 PCL-R 分数被分为人际情感因素（F1）和生活方式-反社会因素（F2）。不出所料，F1 与犯罪行为中的积极（而非消极）激活情绪相关（τ = .32，p p = .03），而 F1 则不相关。愤怒情绪没有发现不同的关联。总之，PCL-R 心理变态建构的双因素性质似乎反映在现实生活中犯罪行为的心理过程中。这可能预示着不同的犯罪过程。

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