A Comparative Analysis of the Anxiety in Offenders of the Law Based on Structural Equational Models

Abstract

Anxiety affects men and women and have a negative impact on their lives. This paper presents two structural equation models (SEM) to evaluate the variables (physiological and cognitive), that most influenced the anxiety in men and women offenders of the law. Was used a representative sample of 60 offenders of the law (30 mens and 30 womens) of the Specialized Attention Center (SAC) “Carlos Lleras Restrepo” in Medellin, Colombia with diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). The results of Bartlett's and KMO tests, indicated that the factorial analysis is adequate, all the constructs are statistically significant. The goodness-of-fit test indicated that the model fits well with the data. This paper concludes that, of the two constructs considered: physiological and cognition, in the men the construct that most influences the latent variable physiological are the “Palpitations or tachycardia”. The construct that most influences the latent variable cognitive is the “a feeling of instability”. In the women, the construct that most influences the latent variable physiological is the “dizziness or vertigo”. The construct that most influences the latent variable cognitive is “be afraid”.

Intellectual Quotient and Social Cognition in Young Offenders: A Relational Analysis

“…Young offenders with an antisocial structure have alterations in social cognition, which is reflected in the difficulty of interacting with others in an appropriate way and putting themselves in the other's place as an empathic symbol (Kratcoski et al, 2020). The offender with an antisocial structure has a different neurobiological functioning than the non-clinical population (Quintero-López et al,2020), specifically in the brain areas associated with the responses of empathy, sympathy and moral reasoning, here, pleasant biological responses are activated in situations that generate feelings of compassion and pain in the majority of the population (Lebuda et al, 2019). Empathy and sympathy form part of the social neurosciences that are closely intertwined.…”