Citation

Herrera-Hernández E, Marván L, Saavedra M, Contreras CM. Acta Psiquiatr. Psicol. Am. Lat. 1993; 39(1): 53-57.

Vernacular Title

Niveles de ansiedad y depresion en procesados por violacion.

Affiliation

Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología, Universidad Veracruzana, México.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Fundacion Acta Fondo para la Salud Mental)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8237434

Abstract

Whether the active subject of rape possesses a particular personality trait is a much debated matter. It is an accepted fact that a small amount of rapists fall into the sadistic diagnostic category. Other psychopatologic traits likely to identify a rapist are, however, unknown. The present study was carried over at a jail near the city of Xalapa (Veracruz) Mexico. Hamilton, IDARE, and Zung scales, in their modified Spanish version were applied to a sample of imprisoned adult rapists. Compared to their control group (men serving sentences for other felonies), rapists scored higher in anxiety, and depression scales. In the light of these results, it is suggested that some rapists are likely to be anxious-depressive subjects that, after having "acquired" a sociopathic repertoire, offend other people in conditions of indefensiveness, contrary to depressive subjects who aggress themselves.

Language: es