Table 2.
Descriptive item overview of (non)stigmatizing attitudes toward non-offending MAPs and comparison with German community citizens or Russian sex therapists
| Item | Swiss outpatient therapists N = 427 (OT) | Jahnke et al., (2015a), Study 1 German community citizensa (CC) | Koops et al. (2016) Russian sex therapistsb (ST) | OT vs. CC | OT vs. ST | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | Uncertain (%) | Agree (%) | M | SD | Uncertain (%) | Agree (%) | M | SD | Uncertain (%) | Agree (%) | p | d | p | d | |||
| Intentionalityc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Deliberate decision to have pedophilic interests | .76 | 1.19 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 2.41 | 2.07 | 15.3 | 30.3 | 2.35 | 1.79 | 23.1 | 23.1 | < .001 | − 0.91 | < .001 | − 1.29 | ||
| Have the choice whether they have pedophilic interests or not | .93 | 1.27 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 2.41 | 2.08 | 16.7 | 29.4 | 3.08 | 1.60 | 19.2 | 46.2 | < .001 | − .80 | < .001 | − 1.67 | ||
| Something that one can choose | .62 | 1.06 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.21 | 2.07 | 16.0 | 26.2 | 2.23 | 1.77 | 26.9 | 23.1 | < .001 | − .89 | < .001 | − 1.45 | ||
| Social Distance Scalece | ||||||||||||||||||
| Accept as colleague | 2.30 | 2.07 | 14.5 | 31.2 | 1.43 | 1.76 | 11.5 | 14.4 | 1.32 | 1.35 | 8.0 | 8.0 | < .001 | .47 | .002 | .48 | ||
| Accept as friend | 2.37 | 1.91 | 20.4 | 27.6 | .96 | 1.43 | 8.4 | 7.1 | 1.20 | 1.53 | 8.0 | 12.0 | < .001 | .88 | .113 | .62 | ||
| Accept as neighbor | 2.95 | 1.97 | 18.7 | 40.5 | 1.24 | 1.63 | 11.2 | 10.4 | 1.28 | 1.40 | 8.0 | 8.0 | < .001 | .98 | < .001 | .86 | ||
| Talk to them | 4.46 | 1.69 | 11.5 | 75.4 | 2.61 | 2.12 | 16.2 | 34.2 | 2.56 | 1.64 | 16.0 | 32.00 | < .001 | .93 | .001 | 1.13 | ||
| Dangerousnessd | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||
| Link to child sexual abuse | 4.75 | 1.80 | 15.2 | 58.8 | ||||||||||||||
| Will lead to child sexual abuse | 3.06 | 1.56 | 18.3 | 20.1 | ||||||||||||||
| Have sex with children | 3.25 | 1.61 | 24.4 | 19.4 | ||||||||||||||
| Punitive Attitudesd | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||
| Inform citizens about child sexual offenders as neighbors | 3.10 | 1.91 | 14.8 | 26.0 | ||||||||||||||
| Preventive detention | 1.97 | 1.40 | 8.2 | 6.8 | ||||||||||||||
| Forbid to work w/ children | 5.90 | 1.65 | 4.4 | 84.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Mandatory psychotherapy | 3.91 | 2.02 | 17.8 | 40.3 | ||||||||||||||
| Openly available sex offender registry w/ name, photo, address | 1.70 | 1.24 | 6.1 | 4.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Chemical castration | 2.00 | 1.50 | 8.9 | 8.7 | ||||||||||||||
| Devianced | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||
| Normal w/ rare inclinations (recoded) | 4.36 | 2.02 | 10.5 | 48.9 | ||||||||||||||
| Are sick | 4.65 | 1.91 | 15.9 | 57.1 | ||||||||||||||
| Need treatment | 5.78 | 1.66 | 10.1 | 80.3 | ||||||||||||||
MAPs Minor-attracted persons; n/a Data not available in comparison studies
aN ≥ 841, for exact sample sizes refer to Jahnke et al., (2015a, Study 1, Table 1); bN ≥ 25, for exact sample sizes refer to Koops et al., (2016, Table 1); citems have been rescaled (Likert scales from 1–7 to 0–6) to fit the scale formats in Jahnke et al., (2015a) and Koops et al. (2016), Uncertain (score 3), Agree (scores 4–6); dLikert scales from 1 to 7, Uncertain (score 4), Agree (scores 5–7); eraw values (not recoded to match comparison samples)