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Abel, Gene G.; Huffman, Jeffrey; Warberg, Brent; Holland, Clarence L.

doi:10.1023/a:1022063214826

Cited by 38 publications

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“…Respondents may be asked to examine the pictures in preparation for questions they will be asked later, or be asked to rate each picture on various attributes (e.g., level of physical attractiveness). VT measures indirectly assess sexual interest by unobtrusively recording the time a respondent takes to rate a picture and move on to the next one (e.g., Abel et al, 1998Abel et al, , 2004Mokros et al, 2013). Individuals who are sexually attracted to children are expected to spend more time looking at or rating an image of a child relative to an image of an adult.…”

Section: Viewing Timementioning

confidence: 99%

How well do indirect measures assess sexual interest in children? A meta-analysis.

Pedneault¹,

Hilgard²,

Pettersen³

et al. 2021

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Objective: We quantitatively reviewed the construct validity evidence for all cognitively based indirect measures of sexual interest in prepubescent children (pedophilic interest) and pubescent children (hebephilic interest) using meta-analysis. Method: Studies were included if they presented scores on a cognitively based indirect measure of pedohebephilic interest for a sample of adolescent or adult males who had committed a sexual offense against a child 16 years of age or younger, or who reported sexual interest in children, and for a comparison group. Studies were also included if they reported on the strength of association between scores on an indirect measure and an independent indicator of pedohebephilic interest in a sample of males. We used meta-analysis with robust variance estimation to summarize effect sizes and metaregression to test potential moderators. Results: Cognitively based indirect measures of pedohebephilic interest showed a moderate difference between pedohebephilic (n = 2,552) and nonpedohebephilic males (n = 2,434), d = 0.61, 95% CI [0.46, 0.76], k = 39. A small-to-moderate correlation was also observed between indirect measures and independent indicators of pedohebephilic interest, r = .23, 95% CI [0.17, 0.28], k = 23, n = 3,623. These effects were qualified by substantial heterogeneity; however, most moderators we tested did not account for a significant amount of heterogeneity. Conclusions: Findings suggest that publication bias did not substantially distort the results. However, the lack of significant moderators suggests more research is needed to understand the conditions under which indirect measures best reflect pedohebephilic interest. Public Health Significance StatementThe body of evidence on cognitively based indirect measures of sexual interest in children (e.g., viewing or reaction time measures) suggests that they are promising and worthy of continued research, but more evidence is required before we can rely on these measures alone to make decisions that impact public safety or civil liberty.

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Section: Viewing Timementioning

confidence: 99%

How well do indirect measures assess sexual interest in children? A meta-analysis.

Pedneault¹,

Hilgard²,

Pettersen³

et al. 2021

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…(1996) found that men who sexually assaulted children viewed slides of children longer than they viewed slides of adults. In several studies conducted with the Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest TM (AASI), a VT assessment methodology using photographs of clothed models, Abel and his colleagues have reported encouraging data with respect to the internal consistency and discriminant validity of the AASI with adult males who acknowledged sexual assaults against children (Abel, Jordan, Hand, Holland, & Phipps, 2001; Abel, Lawry, Karlstrom, Osborn, & Gillespie, 1994; Abel, Huffman, Warberg, & Holland, 1998). In one of the few studies of the utility of the AASI conducted outside of the developer's laboratory, Letourneau (2002) found that PPG and AASI responses from 57 adult males were significantly correlated for most stimulus categories, and that both assessment approaches significantly differentiated those participants with male child victims from those with victims from other groups.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Sexual Arousal with Adolescent Males Who Have Offended Sexually: Self-Report and Unobtrusively Measured Viewing Time

Worling

2006

Sex Abuse

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Sexual arousal was assessed using three approaches: the Affinity (Version. 1.0) computerized assessment of unobtrusively measured viewing time (VT), Affinity self-report ratings of sexual attractiveness, and a self-report sexual arousal graphing procedure. Data were collected from 78 males, aged 12–18 (M=15.09; SD=1.62), who acknowledged their sexual assaults. The pattern of responses to all three assessment techniques was remarkably similar, with maximal sexual interest demonstrated and reported for adolescent and adult females. Both self-report procedures could significantly distinguish those adolescents who assaulted a child from those who assaulted peers or adults. The self-report procedures could also significantly discriminate those adolescents with male child victims. The Affinity VT approach significantly differentiated those adolescents who assaulted male children from those who assaulted other individuals. No assessment technique could accurately identify those adolescents with exclusively female child victims. Overall, the results suggest that structured, self-report data regarding sexual interests can be useful in the assessment of adolescents who have offended sexually.

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“…Because treatment often involves polygraph testing , penile plethysmography , and sexual reconditioning (Abel, Huffman, Warberg, & Holland, 1998 ;Kokish, 2004 ;Laws & Marshall, 1991 ), success or failure is largely out of the offender's control (Maletzky, 1993 ). If well-intentioned treatment cooperation were to lead to failure, as it sometimes does, the offender is essentially the architect of his own demise.…”

Section: Civil Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%