Psychopathic Personality as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Atypical Sexuality and Sexual Coercion Proclivity in the General Population
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Authors | Thatcher, A., Wallace, L. and Fido, D. |
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Abstract | Being sexually coerced can have long-lasting psychological impacts on victims; with perpetration strongly predicted by elevated psychopathic traits. Owing to recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom that criminalize coercive control under the Domestic Abuse Act (2021), this study offers a timely investigation into the mechanisms of sexual coercion in domestic abuse across sexual abuse and coercive control. We used moderation analysis (n = 405) to investigate whether sexual coercion proclivity was predicted by facets of atypical sexuality (non-clinical elevated levels of sex drive, sexual sadism, and sexual masochism), and whether this relationship was moderated by psychopathic personality traits specifically the factor one components, which encompasses interpersonal and affective characteristics). Psychopathic personality traits significantly moderated the positive association between sex drive and sexual coercion proclivity, and between sexual sadism and sexual coercion proclivity in males (but not females), but psychopathic personality traits had no such moderating effect in the sexual masochism model. Results are discussed in terms of identifying risk factors of sexual coercion within a general population sample and international application. Open data and a preprint of this paper are available at [https://osf.io/xkcah/?view_only=134ff9c93ad24ba286515b348ce79c0c]. |
Keywords | sex drive; paraphilic sexual fantasy; psychopathic personality traits; sexual coercion proclivity |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Sexual Abuse |
Journal citation | pp. 1-43 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
ISSN | 1573-286X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/10790632231205799 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10790632231205799 |
https://psyarxiv.com/a83pg/ | |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 19 Oct 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | Sep 2023 |
Deposited | 23 Oct 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/q1118/psychopathic-personality-as-a-moderator-of-the-relationship-between-atypical-sexuality-and-sexual-coercion-proclivity-in-the-general-population
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