Study of criminal attitude towards violence and personality traits in males
2017
Simane-Vigante, L., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia);Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia) | Chuzhuyeva, Y., Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia) | Plotka, I., Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia) | Blumenau, N., Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia)
The problem of studying criminal attitudes, development of tools needed to measure them, as well as these tools’ adaptation from original versions into other languages, is particularly topical at the moment. A poorly developed field is the study of the relationship between criminal attitudes and personal traits. The research aim is to study the relation of criminal attitude towards violence and personality traits in males. Research questions: Is there a relationship between criminal attitude towards violence and personality traits (extroversion, psychoticism, neuroticism) in males who have not been convicted? Which of the studied personality traits are the best predictors of the criminal attitude towards violence? Participants: 192 males aged 18 to 39 years (M = 23.2, SD = 3.4). All the participants have never been brought to justice for violence. Methods used: the Criminal Attitudes to Violence Scale (CAVs); the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised - Abbreviated (EPQR-A). Results: qualitatively different results have been found in groups of participants with high and low CAVs values. In the group with high CAVs values a positive relationship between the criminal attitude towards violence and psychoticism has been found; psychoticism makes the main contribution to criminal attitude towards violence In the group with low CAVs values a negative relationship between the criminal attitude towards violence and psychoticism, negative relationship between CAVs and extraversion and positive relationship between CAVs and neuroticism have been found; psychoticism and extraversion make the main contribution to criminal attitude towards violence.
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