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Prisoners' personality: A factor analytically derived structure
Author(s) -
Heskin K. J.,
Bolton N.,
Banister P. A.,
Smith F. V.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1977.tb00218.x
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , extraversion and introversion , personality , anxiety , factor (programming language) , dimension (graph theory) , big five personality traits , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pure mathematics , mathematics , programming language , computer science
A factor analytic study of personality questionnaire data obtained from a group of 175 long‐term prisoners revealed a factor structure which appears to be peculiar to prisoners. In particular, hostility and anxiety obtain prominence in the structure, while the theoretically significant dimension of extraversion is relegated in importance.