Personality in Assaultive and Non-Assaultive Juvenile Male Offenders

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ID13663242
AuthorsToby Berman (School of Professional Psychology of Nova University, corresponding author), Timothy J H Paisey, Timothy Paisey (School of Professional Psychology of Nova University)
Year1984
Volume54
Issue2
Pages527-530
Publication date1984-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1984.54.2.527
PMID6739646
OpenAlexW2065550166
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

The present study investigated the relationship between antisocial behavior and personality in 30 American juvenile males convicted of offenses including assault or confrontations with a victim, and 30 juvenile males convicted of offenses involving property without confrontation with a victim. Subjects, who were aged 14 to 17 yr. (mean 15 yr., 8 mo.) and held in detention pending sentencing, were administered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Scale. Juveniles convicted of assaultive offenses exhibited significantly higher psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism scores, and lower lie scores than those convicted of property offenses. Sensation-seeking scores were significantly lower for the non-assaultive group. Results support Eysenck's description of dimensions of offenders' behavior

Big Five personality traits · Extraversion and introversion · Eysenck Personality Questionnaire · Injury prevention · Juvenile · Juvenile delinquency · Medical emergency · Neuroticism · Personality · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychoticism · Sensation Seeking · Suicide prevention · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Clinical Psychology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology

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