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CRIME AND PERSONALITY REVISITED
Author(s) -
A. RA THUS SPENCER,
SIEGEL LARRY J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1980.tb01363.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , hypomania , psychology , personality , set (abstract data type) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , mania , mood , bipolar disorder , computer science , programming language
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.