Office of Corrections, Canton of Zurich, Switzrland.
University of Konstanz, Germany.
Sex Abuse. 2020 Feb;32(1):79-100. doi: 10.1177/1079063218800473. Epub 2018 Sep 18.
The Sexual Sadism Scale (SeSaS) was developed to assist in the diagnosis of sexual sadism, and it revealed adequate psychometric properties in prior research. This study cross validated the SeSaS in Switzerland using a sample of 179 male sex offenders. Specifically, the SeSaS conformed to a Mokken model of double monotonicity (scalability coefficient [] = .46, coefficient of reproducibility [CR] = .89), indicating that it measures a unidimensional construct of sexual sadism with hierarchically ordered items. The reliability of the scale was acceptable to high (ρ = .80, λ = .75, κ = .88). In addition, the SeSaS was strongly associated with sexual sadism diagnoses based on mental health manuals ( = .60, odds ratio [OR] = 13.02, area under the curve [AUC] = 1) but not with recidivism. The results suggest that the use of the SeSaS may improve the validity and reliability of sexual sadism diagnoses, therefore playing a role in the assessment and management of sex offenders.
性施虐癖量表(SeSaS)旨在协助性施虐癖的诊断,并且在先前的研究中显示出足够的心理测量学特性。本研究使用 179 名男性性犯罪者的样本对瑞士的 SeSaS 进行了交叉验证。具体来说,SeSaS 符合双单调性的莫肯模型(可分级系数 [] =.46,再现系数 [CR] =.89),表明它测量了具有层次有序项目的性施虐癖的单一维度结构。该量表的可靠性是可接受的高(ρ =.80,λ =.75,κ =.88)。此外,SeSaS 与心理健康手册中的性施虐癖诊断有很强的关联( =.60,优势比 [OR] = 13.02,曲线下面积 [AUC] = 1),但与累犯无关。结果表明,使用 SeSaS 可能会提高性施虐癖诊断的有效性和可靠性,从而在性犯罪者的评估和管理中发挥作用。