Ego control and criminal behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10168820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William S Laufer (Northwestern University, corresponding author), John A Johnson (0000-0002-2323-2133), Robert Hogan (0000-0002-1792-7553), R Edward Hogan (0000-0003-2272-5005) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 179-184 |
| Publication date | 1981-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.41.1.179 |
| OpenAlex | W4241989924, W2078588002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
The personality assessment literature using deviant and antisocial subject populations contains an interesting anomaly—that persons representing major criminal offense categories can be only weakly distinguished from one another by using standard scales of the best conventional inventories (e.g., the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the California Psychological Inventory). This may reflect the fact that existing inventories are designed principally to predict maladjustment or social competence, and most criminal groups tested are found to be equally maladjusted and socially immature. The construct of ego control is not strongly related to adjustment or competence, but rather appears to underlie preference for different life-styles and occupations. This article demonstrates the ability of ego control to distinguish between the offense categories of murder and drug related crimes. A sample of 59 murderers was found to score significantly higher than a group of 56 drug offenders on a rudimentary measure of ego control
Control (management · Criminal behavior · Criminology · Ego Depletion · Id, ego and super-ego · Self-control · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Resilience and Big Five personality traits
The structure of empathy
Clarification of the five-factor model with the Abridged Big Five Dimensional Circumplex
Moral judgment, personality, and attitudes toward authority
Normative Ethics of Two Categories of Offenders
Expression of Aggression and Personality Functioning in Selected Groups of White Criminal Offenders
A socioanalytic theory of moral development
The MMPI as a primary differentiator and predictor of behavior in prison
Psychology of crime and criminal justice
Japanese Validation of the CPI Social Maturity Index
Cross-Cultural Validation of a Measure of Asocial Behavior
Crime and Personality
Organizing crime
Personality and criminality a summary and implications of the literature
Moral Judgment Philosophies in Three Offender Categories
Validation of the CPI Socialization scale in India
Toward an adequate taxonomy of personality attributes
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2018 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |