Psychopathic and nonpsychopathic violent offenders on the rorschach: Discriminative features and comparisons with schizophrenic inpatient and university student samples

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-305

  Hartmann, Ellen ^a   Nørbech, Peder Bryhn ^a,b   Grønnerød, Cato ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Ullersmo Prison   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVE CONTENT; AGGRESSIVE PAST; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OFFENDER; PATIENT CODING; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISON; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOPATHY; RORSCHACH COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOPATHY; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VALIDITY; VIOLENT OFFENDER;

EID: 33744961760     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8603_05     Document Type: Article

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