Citation

James M, Seager JA. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2006; 50(1): 47-56.

Affiliation

Correctional Service Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X05279804

PMID

16397121

Abstract

Forty male prisoners at a medium-security Canadian penitentiary completed the I Questionnaire, a measure of impulsivity, and two measures of schemas for a hostile world. Both hypervigilance for hostile words during a dichotic shadowing task and hostile attributions made about actors in social vignettes correlated greater than .30 with a criminal history of persistent violence. Impulsivity did not significantly correlate with the schema measures but correlated .30 with persistent violence. The results provide support for the Serin and Kuriychuk model of aggression that links impulsivity and hostile attributions with persistent male violence.