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KMID : 1143820180140020112
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Anxiety and Mood
2018 Volume.14 No. 2 p.112 ~ p.119
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A Comparison of Emotional Characteristics of Women Charged with Homicide or Non-violent Crimes : Focused on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
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Oh Se-Young
Lim Myung-Ho
Jaung Ji-Suk
Ryu Mi-Kyung
Lim Kyoung-Ok
Kim Seon-Kyung
Jang So-Young
Cha Seung-Min
Choi Jong-Hyuk
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Abstract
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Objective : This study aims to identify personality characteristics in female homicide offenders by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) test.
Methods : This study retrospectively analyzed the mental appraisals and MMPI-2 scores of 54 women charged with homicide and 67 women charged with non-violent crimes, who were referred to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city for psychiatric evaluation between January 2012 and March 2016.
Results : Women charged with homicide scored significantly higher on Hs (p=0.018), D (p<0.001), Hy (p=0.002) and Pt (p=0.004) than the women charged with non-violent crimes. The women charged with homicide may have developed the following characteristics: hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria and psychasthenia. In multiple regression analyses, a final regression model including age of crime onset and depression was significant, explaining 16.5% of the variance in homicides committed by females.
Conclusion : These findings suggest that personality characteristics in the female homicide offenders might be different compared to the non-violent crime offenders.
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KEYWORD
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Female homicide offender, Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory-2, Depression
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