Response Style versus Crime-Specific Cognition: Predicting Disciplinary Adjustment and Recidivism in Male and Female Offenders with the PICTS

Autor/in	Walters, Glenn
Titel	Response Style versus Crime-Specific Cognition: Predicting Disciplinary Adjustment and Recidivism in Male and Female Offenders with the PICTS
Quelle	In: Assessment, 14 (2007) 1, S.35-43 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191106292957
Schlagwörter	Measures (Individuals); Criminals; Validity; Recidivism; Response Style (Tests); Crime; Cognitive Processes; Test Validity; Cognitive Style; Predictor Variables; Males; Institutionalized Persons; Correctional Institutions; Adjustment (to Environment); Personality Traits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Straftäter; Gültigkeit; Rückfall; Antwortverhalten; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Testvalidität; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Prädiktor; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Jugendstrafvollzug; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Four samples were used to evaluate the incremental validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) General Criminal Thinking (GCT) score and Proactive (P) and Reactive (R) composite scales vis-a-vis response style in predicting disciplinary adjustment and recidivism. Purified Confusion (Cf[subscript p]) and Defensiveness (Df[subscript p]) validity scales were constructed by eliminating items from the PICTS Confusion and Defensiveness scales that overlapped with GCT, P, and R. The four-item Cf[subscript p] and Df[subscript p] scales were employed as measures of response style and entered into binomial probit regression analyses alongside GCT, P, and R. The GCT score consistently predicted disciplinary adjustment and recidivism in male and female offenders when included in regression equations with Cf[subscript p] and Df[subscript p]. The P scale only displayed incremental validity relative to Cf[subscript p] and Df[subscript p] in large groups of participants, whereas the R scale was incapable of predicting recidivism in female offenders when paired with Cf[subscript p] and Df[subscript p]. (Contains 5 tables and 6 endnotes.) (Author).
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