The severe sexual sadism scale: Cross-validation and scale properties

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 764-769

  Mokros, Andreas ^a,b   Schilling, Frank ^c   Eher, Reinhard ^c,d   Nitschke, Joachim ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e Ansbach District Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Psychometrics; Rasch; Scale development; Sensitivity.; Sexual sadism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS VALIDATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-IV-TR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE SEXUAL SADISM SCALE; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL SADISM; VALIDATION STUDY; AUSTRIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SADISM; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SADISM; SEX OFFENSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874401037     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026419     Document Type: Article

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