Psychopathology and guilt in heterosexual and subgroups of homosexual reformatory inmates.

Heterosexuals (n = 2S), homosexual insertees (n = 25), and homosexual insertors (n = 2S) were carefully selected from a reformatory population and administered the MMPI and the Mosher Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory. A comparison of MMPI profiles, scores on 3 aspects of guilt, and the intercorrelations between the MMPI scales and the guilt scales indicated many significant differences. The inmates generally seemed to be impulsive and antisocial men who acted out their thoughts and feelings and experienced little anxiety and guilt. The insertees were characterized by confusion concerning personal and sexual identity and an inhibition of aggression. The inserters displayed the greatest degree of psychopathology; they openly admitted rebelliously deviant thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and appeared quite psychotic-like in their thinking.