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ERIC Number: EJ832440
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Mar
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-3590
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Interpersonal Characteristics of Male Criminal Offenders: Personality, Psychopathological, and Behavioral Correlates
Edens, John F.
Psychological Assessment, v21 n1 p89-98 Mar 2009
Interest in conceptualizing the interpersonal style of individuals who engage in serious antisocial behavior has increased in recent years. This study examines the personality, psychopathological, and behavioral correlates of interpersonal dominance and warmth, as operationalized via scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 2007), across several samples of male prison inmates (combined N = 1,062). Consistent with theory, multivariate analyses indicated that low warmth and, to a lesser extent, high dominance were associated with antisocial and paranoid traits, specifically, and externalizing-spectrum psychopathology more generally, whereas borderline traits and internalizing-spectrum psychopathology were uniquely associated with low interpersonal warmth. Among smaller subsamples of inmates followed prospectively, high dominance and, to a lesser extent, low warmth predicted general and aggressive institutional misconduct, whereas dominance uniquely predicted staff ratings of treatment noncompliance/failure. (Contains 2 tables and 7 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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