Esquemas precoces mal-adaptativos como preditores da hostilidade em violadores

Abstract

Unceasingly, people are faced with situations making them vulnerable and determining their behavior. Therefore, the act of raping may also be the result of a vulnerable situation, where the psychological factors prevail (anger and hostility). These emotional factors are often shaped by the subject schematic structures, which relate to the perception that he has about himself, the world and the others. So, there is a need to understand which dysfunctional schemes are able to trigger hostility in rapists. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of early maladaptive schemas in the hostility of rapists. The sample consisted in men convicted of rape crime (N = 53), aged between 20 and 58 (M = 34; DP = 9.16). The results showed that the scheme with higher predictive power in rapists’ hostility was Pessimism. However, there are two schemes (self-control and subjugation) that also explain the hostility, although the percentage of variance was smaller, when comparing with the pessimism schematic structure. That said, it would be relevant to intervene by using schema therapy in the schematic structures to minimize the levels of hostility in rapists.

Date of Award	2016
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	JOANA PATRÍCIA PEREIRA CARVALHO (Supervisor)