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2018 Oct;14(2):112-119. 10.24986/anxmod.2018.14.2.112.
A Comparison of Emotional Characteristics of Women Charged with Homicide or Non-violent Crimes : Focused on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, National Forensic Hospital, Gongju, Korea.
- 2Department of Psychology, College of Heealth Science, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea. paperose@dku.edu
- 3Department of Psychology, National Forensic Hospital, Gongju, Korea.
- KMID: 2430372
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.24986/anxmod.2018.14.2.112
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
This study aims to identify personality characteristics in female homicide offenders by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) test.
METHODS
This study retrospectively analyzed the mental appraisals and MMPI-2 scores of 54 women charged with homicide and 67 women charged with non-violent crimes, who were referred to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city for psychiatric evaluation between January 2012 and March 2016.
RESULTS
Women charged with homicide scored significantly higher on Hs (p=0.018), D (p < 0.001), Hy (p=0.002) and Pt (p=0.004) than the women charged with non-violent crimes. The women charged with homicide may have developed the following characteristics: hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria and psychasthenia. In multiple regression analyses, a final regression model including age of crime onset and depression was significant, explaining 16.5% of the variance in homicides committed by females.
CONCLUSION
These findings suggest that personality characteristics in the female homicide offenders might be different compared to the non-violent crime offenders.
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