The Effect of Criminal thinking on Empathy with the Mediating Role of Helping Behaviors in Female Prisoners with Anti Social Personality disorder

This research was conducted with the developing a The Effect of Criminal thinking on Empathy with the Mediating Role of Helping Behaviors in Female Prisoners with Anti Social Personality disorder. The method was descriptive and correlation type, which used the statistical method of structural equation modeling. The statistical research population included all female prisoners with antisocial personality disorder in Isfahan city, who have been sentenced for one year. In the current research, the purposeful random sampling method was used, so that in the first stage, among the total number of female prisoners between the spring and summer of 2024, after the clinical interview and the Milon 3 test, the number of people who were diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder Socially recruited were selected as the target group and were selected with the purposeful sampling method, and their number was 128 people. and in order to participate in the research, research questionnaires including Milon's 3 multi-axis clinical questionnaire , Criminal thinking questionnaire , interpersonal response inventory and sociable personality questionnaire , answered. pls software was used for statistical analysis using structural equati pls software was used for statistical analysis using structural equations. The research findings showed that the mediating variable of helping behavior can explain the relationship between Criminal thinking and empathy pls .The research findings showed that the variable of helping behavior plays a mediating role in the effect of Criminal thinking on empathy and strengthens the effect of the two on each other.