The MCMI was administered to 603 recently convicted violent offenders, grouped according to nature of the offense into child molesters (n = 201), rapists (n = 195), and non‐sexually aggressive felons (n = 205). Both groups of sexual offenders were more passive‐aggressive, but child molesters were more dependent, anxious, and depressed than the other two groups, whose personality style was more narcissistic and independent with little psychic distress. Results confirm earlier findings based on MMPI test results, which show that the personality styles of rapists are more similar to those of non‐sexually aggressive felons than to those of child molesters. Test variance can no longer be the basis for these replicated findings.

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