Influence of psychopathy on self-perceived quality of life in forensic patients: a cohort study in Belgium
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Compared with other offenders, psychopaths have a longer criminal trajectory punctuated by prolonged placements in correctional facilities or forensic establishments. However, little is known about how they experience these environments. Against this background, the influence of psychopathy characteristics on self-perceived quality of life (QOL) in forensic patients was evaluated. Patients (N = 96) were male adult offenders interned in a Belgian forensic hospital, divided into three groups according to psychopathy level: high (N = 26), moderate (N = 35), and low (N = 35). QOL was evaluated with the short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment tool. Psychopathy was evaluated with the psychopathy checklist – revised. The high- and moderate-psychopathy patients reported better social relations compared with low-psychopathy patients. A detailed examination of the facets of psychopathy showed arrogant/deceitful interpersonal style, and emotional detachment to be positively correlated to a favorable perception of social relations. It may be that the psychopathic characteristics linked to emotional detachment and interpersonal style ‘protect’ against an unpleasant perception of events experienced and allow looking at social relations in a positive manner.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".