Felony Offenses Related to Personality Traits
The problem with which this investigation is concerned is whether relationships may exist between personality and type of offense in a felon population. The Eysenck Personality Inventory, which measures extraversion-introversion (E), neuroticism-stability (N), and includes a lie scale (L), was used...
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ndltd-unt.edu-info-ark-67531-metadc5043972017-03-17T08:41:25Z Felony Offenses Related to Personality Traits Ancell, Richard Guy felony offenses Criminal psychology. Personality. Eyseneck Personality Inventory The problem with which this investigation is concerned is whether relationships may exist between personality and type of offense in a felon population. The Eysenck Personality Inventory, which measures extraversion-introversion (E), neuroticism-stability (N), and includes a lie scale (L), was used to determine subject's personality traits. Offenses were divided into crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against the morals of the state. Subjects consisted of 751 adult male felons. The product-moment correlation was computed for each offense-variable EPI pair. A negative association between E and crimes against persons, together with a positive association between L and crimes against persons, were found to be statistically significant at the 0.05 level, although quite low. It was concluded that results obtained should be guardedly interpreted in view of the minimal amount of variability accounted for, though of possible value in suggesting future research. North Texas State University Peek, Leon A. Critelli, Joseph W. 1977-05 Thesis or Dissertation v, 25 leaves Text local-cont-no: 1002772970-Ancell call-no: 379 N81 no.5314 untcat: b1115610 oclc: 3147025 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504397/ ark: ark:/67531/metadc504397 English Public Ancell, Richard Guy Copyright Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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The problem with which this investigation is concerned is whether relationships may exist between personality and type of offense in a felon population. The Eysenck Personality Inventory, which measures extraversion-introversion (E), neuroticism-stability (N), and includes a lie scale (L), was used to determine subject's personality traits. Offenses were divided into crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against the morals of the state. Subjects consisted of 751 adult male felons. The product-moment correlation was computed for each offense-variable EPI pair. A negative association between E and crimes against persons, together with a positive association between L and crimes against persons, were found to be statistically significant at the 0.05 level, although quite low. It was concluded that results obtained should be guardedly interpreted in view of the minimal amount of variability accounted for, though of possible value in suggesting future research. |
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