Abstract:
The present research uses the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire of Cattell and Eber (1974) to find the different traits that could eventually establish a characteristic profile of pedophilia: homosexual and heterosexual. The statistical
analyses are the results of three subject groups (N = 120): 30 heterosexual pedophiles; 30 homosexual pedophiles selectioned with the help of penile plethysmography, registered to a sexology clinic for deviant behavioral problems and 30 voluntary people recruited from the general public form the control group. The t-tests do not show any significant difference between the two groups of pedophiles; although a number of differences is noticed between the control group and the two clinical groups. The two deviant groups have the image of the personality which follows the same profile
with a few particular differences associated to the sexual orientation.
