Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Price, Shelley A.; Beech, Anthony R.; Mitchell, Ian; Humphreys, Glyn W.

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“…The adult groups that have been tested using these word stimuli have also displayed Stroop interference for the sexual action and physical descriptor word categories (Price, 2011). This might suggest that the word stimuli from these categories are of a more general sexual interest to individuals.…”

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“…It is important to note that although ANCOVAs were run for each dependent variable, when the data violated the assumptions of parametric testing and nonparametric measures were necessary, the results of the ANCOVAs were interpreted with caution because there is no available non-parametric equivalent of ANCOVA (see Price, 2011 for more detailed description of data analysis).…”

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“…Mean RTs and emotional Stroop bias scores are displayed in Table 3 for the Price (2011) word stimulus set. One-way ANOVAs yielded significant differences for mean RTs between the adolescent sexual abusers and the non-offending adolescent controls for the matched sexual action (MSA), F(2, 62) = 5.65, p < .05 words.…”

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“…One measure that has been used in the adult literature in attempts to tap into the psychological nature of deviant sexual interests with offenders is the emotional Stroop task (Price, 2011;Price & Hanson, 2007;Smith & Waterman, 2004). The emotional Stroop task uses differences in reaction times (RT) to emotional words and neutral or control words as a measure of interference in information-processing (Larsen, Mercer & Balota, 2006;Wentura, Rothermund, & Bak, 2000).…”

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Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

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Adolescent sexual abusers are a heterogeneous group of offenders that often receive generic assessment and treatment services that are modeled on research findings from adult sex offender samples. The emotional Stroop task has been used to measure deviant sexual interest in adult samples. The purpose of the present study was to test whether the emotional Stroop task could also be used to assess deviant sexual interest in adolescent samples. Three groups of adolescents (a) sexual abusers (n = 24); (b) offending controls (n = 21); and (c) nonoffending controls (n = 21) completed two emotional Stroop tasks related to deviant sexual interest and tests of executive function. Adolescent sexual abusers were significantly slower to color-name some word stimuli than both adolescent offending controls and adolescent nonoffending controls. However, the task was unable to differentiate between the groups on most of the Stroop word categories. Very little research has been conducted with adolescent offender samples and the emotional Stroop task. Reaction time (RT) and Stroop bias outcome data for adolescent samples appear to be more unsystematic and weaker than has been observed in previous adult data. Based on potential difficulties with reading and development, the emotional Stroop task may not be a task suitable for measuring deviant sexual interest in adolescent samples.

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“…A number of previous studies have used both students and nonsexual offenders as comparison groups. In each, the sex-related indirect measure was able to discriminate sexual offenders from both comparison groups (e.g., Gress, Anderson, & Laws, 2013; Mihailides, Devilly, & Ward, 2004; Price, Beech, Mitchell, & Humphreys, 2013). On this basis, a student/nonoffender sample was deemed appropriate as a comparison group for this initial study.…”

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Assessing Sexual Interest in Children Using the Go/No-Go Association Test

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Abstract:The present study investigated whether a latency-based Go/No-Go Association Task (GNAT) could be used as an indirect measure of sexual interest in children. A sample 29 individuals with a history of exclusive extrafamilial offenses against a child and 15 individuals with either a history of exclusive intrafamilial or mixed offenses (i.e., against both adults and children) were recruited from a treatment center in the US. Also, a sample of 26 non-offenders was recruited from a university in the UK. All participants completed the Sexual Fantasy-GNAT, a Control-GNAT, and two self-report measures of sexual fantasy. It was hypothesized that, relative to the two comparison groups, the extrafamilial group would respond faster on the block that paired 'sexual fantasy' and 'children'. Also, GNAT scores were expected to correlate with child-related sexual fantasies. Support was found for both hypotheses. Response-latency indices were also found to effectively distinguish the extrafamilial group, as well as those who selfreported using child-related sexual fantasies. The implications of these findings, along with the study's limitations and suggestions for future research, are discussed.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sajrt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 The present study investigated whether a latency-based Go/No-Go Association Task (GNAT) could be used as an indirect measure of sexual interest in children. A sample 29 individuals with a history of exclusive extrafamilial offenses against a child and 15 individuals with either a history of exclusive intrafamilial or mixed offenses (i.e., against both adults and children) were recruited from a treatment center in the US. Also, a sample of 26 nonoffenders was recruited from a university in the UK. All participants completed the Sexual Fantasy-GNAT, a Control-GNAT, and two self-report measures of sexual fantasy. It was hypothesized that, relative to the two comparison groups, the extrafamilial group would respond faster on the block that paired 'sexual fantasy' and 'children'. Also, GNAT scores were expected to correlate with child-related sexual fantasies. Support was found for both hypotheses. Response-latency indices were also found to effectively distinguish the extrafamilial group, as well as those who self-reported using child-related sexual fantasies.The implications of these findings, along with the study's limitations and suggestions for future research, are discussed. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Sexual interest has been defined as the predisposition to respond sexually to a preferred category (i.e., type of person, object, or activity) (Rullo, Strassberg, & Israel, ...

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Indirect Measures of Deviant Sexual Interest

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Snowden

2016

The Wiley Handbook on the Theories, Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offending

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Latency‐ and accuracy‐based indirect measures have become of increasing interest to researchers and clinicians who work with sexual offenders. Most notably, they have been regarded as a useful tool for measuring deviant sexual interests, as they are thought to circumvent many of the issues associated with existing assessment tools. Thus, a number of tasks have been adapted indirectly assess deviant sexual interest and an increasing body of research detailing their utility and psychometric properties has amassed. This chapter examines this literature, providing a comprehensive overview that it is hoped will prove useful for both clinicians and researchers. Specifically, details on how each measure works, their underlying rationale, their validity and reliability, and their limitations are discussed. Suggestions for future research are also offered throughout the chapter.

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Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest Using the Emotional Stroop Task

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Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Measuring Deviant Sexual Interest in Adolescents Using the Emotional Stroop Task

Assessing Sexual Interest in Children Using the Go/No-Go Association Test

Indirect Measures of Deviant Sexual Interest

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