Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Psychol Assess. 2011 Dec;23(4):1017-22. doi: 10.1037/a0024625. Epub 2011 Jul 18.
The Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI; Nichols & Molinder, 1984) is a self-report measure frequently used in the assessment of sex offenders. Scores on the MSI are often used to assess levels of pedophilic interest. However, the question of whether men with pedophilia represent a unique group distinguished by their sexual interests, or whether they are high-scorers on a continuum of sexual interest in children among men who sexually offend against children remains unanswered. Because no existing evidence points conclusively to pedophilia having either a categorical or continuous latent structure, it is unresolved whether MSI scores should be treated as a continuous measure of severity or whether a cut score should be used to categorize individuals as members of a pedophilic taxon. In the present study, the authors used 3 taxometric procedures to analyze the latent structure of pedophilic interest in a sample of 371 convicted child sex offenders. The results converged to indicate that pedophilic interest (as measured by the MSI) is dimensional. The implications of these findings for the assessment of pedophilic interest are discussed.
多相性别量表（MSI；Nichols & Molinder, 1984）是一种常用于评估性犯罪者的自我报告测量工具。MSI 的得分常用于评估恋童癖兴趣的水平。然而，有恋童癖的男性是否代表了一个独特的群体，他们的性兴趣与众不同，或者他们是否是对儿童进行性侵犯的男性中对儿童的性兴趣的连续体上的高分者，这个问题仍未得到解答。由于没有确凿的证据表明恋童癖具有类别或连续的潜在结构，因此仍未解决是否应将 MSI 得分视为严重程度的连续测量，或者是否应使用切割分数将个体分类为恋童癖分类单元的成员。在本研究中，作者使用了 3 种分类测量程序来分析 371 名被定罪的儿童性犯罪者样本中的恋童癖兴趣的潜在结构。结果趋同表明，恋童癖兴趣（如 MSI 所测量的）是维度的。这些发现对恋童癖兴趣评估的影响进行了讨论。
