Strand Susanne, Belfrage Henrik
Forensic Psychiatric Center, Sundsvall, Sweden.
Behav Sci Law. 2005;23(6):837-50. doi: 10.1002/bsl.674.
In this study we examined gender differences in the PCL:SV employing a variety of statistical methods with two subsets of psychopathic individuals drawn from larger samples of 129 female and 499 male Swedish offenders. The larger samples included forensic psychiatric patients, forensic psychiatric evaluees and criminal offenders. We found gender differences in antisocial behavior, as defined in factor 2 of the PCL:SV, with female psychopaths (PCL:SV>or=18) displaying significantly more lying, deceitfulness and lack of control, while male psychopaths were more antisocial as measured by the PCL:SV. We conclude that it might be meaningful to use gender specific definitions in the assessment of psychopathy or, alternatively, slightly revise the diagnostic tools. Our results support the use of the three-factor model of the PCL-R and PCL:SV introduced by Cooke and Michie (2001) in female populations.
在本研究中，我们使用多种统计方法，对从129名瑞典女性罪犯和499名瑞典男性罪犯的较大样本中抽取的两组精神病态个体，研究了PCL:SV中的性别差异。较大的样本包括法医精神病患者、法医精神病评估对象和刑事罪犯。我们发现，PCL:SV第2因子所定义的反社会行为存在性别差异，女性精神病态者（PCL:SV≥18）表现出更多的说谎、欺骗和缺乏自控，而男性精神病态者在PCL:SV测量中表现出更强的反社会性。我们得出结论，在精神病态评估中使用特定性别的定义，或者对诊断工具进行轻微修订，可能是有意义的。我们的结果支持在女性群体中使用Cooke和Michie（2001年）提出的PCL-R和PCL:SV三因素模型。
