Year: 1992
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study explored the relationship between personality characteristics and situational factors with regard to violent behaviour.Two hundred and twenty-two male young offenders completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -1 (MMPI).As well they identified their behavioural responses to 35 hypothetical situations that involved potential for aggression.MMPI clinical scale scores and responses to the situationalvignettes were cluster analyzed both independently and in combination.A variety of dissimilarity metrics and clustering algorithms were employed.The results of these analyses suggested that there were no disjoint clusters in the data.Visual inspection of the data in 3-dimensional space supported this result.Given the failure of the data to form distinct clusters, subsequent planned discriminant analyses of other personality measures and offence history data were not undertaken.Discussion of possible reasons for the failure to find disjoint clusters in the data is followed by suggestions for future research on the identification of violencepotential.
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Anne Maura Beattie
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Johns Hopkins University
OpenAlex ID: W161442566