CRIME AND PERSONALITY REVISITED

CRIME AND PERSONALITY REVISITED

The present study explored the effects of MMPI response sets on relatonships between crime and personality in self‐report studies. The MMPI‐168 and a 21‐item delinquent behavior questionnaire were administered to 1680 high school students. The Psychopathic Deviate, Schizophrenia, and Hypomania scale...

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Published in:Criminology (Beverly Hills) Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 245 - 250
Main Authors: A. RA THUS, SPENCER, SIEGEL, LARRY J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-08-1980
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Summary:The present study explored the effects of MMPI response sets on relatonships between crime and personality in self‐report studies. The MMPI‐168 and a 21‐item delinquent behavior questionnaire were administered to 1680 high school students. The Psychopathic Deviate, Schizophrenia, and Hypomania scales of the MMPI‐168 were correlated with delinquent behaviors, with and without control for the L, F, and K scales of the MMPI‐168, considered separately and simultaneously. Controlling for F eliminated some relationships and significantly diminished the magnitude of others, while control for L and K had no significant effect. Studies of this nature that fail to control for the F type of response set may produee largely illusory results.
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Spencer A. Rathus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at New Mexico State University. He earned his Ph.D. with specialization in clinical/counseling psychology at SUNY‐Albany in 1972. His research has been in the areas of cognitive / behavior therapy, psychological assessment, and deviant behavior.
Larry J. Siegel is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice of the University of Nebraska, Omaha / Lincoln. He received his B.A. at City College of New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. at State University of New York at Albany. He has conducted research and written on juvenile delinquency, jury selection, plea bargaining, and police decision making.
ISSN:0011-1384
1745-9125
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1980.tb01363.x