RT Article
T1 Emotions, Affections, and Psychopathy Among Female Prisoners
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 6/7
SP 708
OP 729
A1 Pinheiro, Marina
A1 Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa
A1 Cunha, Olga
A2 Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa
A2 Cunha, Olga
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694964949
AB The present study intends to be a contribution to understand affections and emotions associated with female psychopathy. Although there are several studies aiming to understand psychopathy, there is still a gap in the integration of such a concept in affective dimensions, as well as a scarcity of surveys conducted in the female population. Sixty-three women confined to prison, located in the North region of Portugal, participated in this study. Participants were assessed using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Levenson's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), and the Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). Results showed that only nine women presented moderate scores of psychopathy. Moreover, women with higher psychopathy scores revealed deficits in positive emotional abilities, and secondary psychopathy was related with predominance of negative affection. In the future, it would be useful to develop more effective instruments to assess emotions and affections in psychopaths.
K1 Psychopathy
K1 Affections
K1 Emotions
K1 Female prisoners
DO 10.1177/0306624X19895976