Citation

Knust S, Stewart AL. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2002; 46(5): 586-602.

Affiliation

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, Queensland 4111.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12365145

Abstract

This study investigated relationships between hostility, Zuckerman's sensation seeking, and Eysenck and Eysenck's personality scales within a prison population, to explore whether they could be conceptualized in terms of two socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking factors. Participants included 79 incarcerated adult male offenders (age range = 18-62). Findings support the distinction between socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking and suggest that these factors represent more overarching personality factors. Psychoticism was a clear marker of the more broad impulsive, unsocialized sensation seeking factor, rather than representing a supertrait in its own right. This factor was also represented by lie, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility scales. Findings relating to hostility also supported such a reformulation, as unsocialized scales did cluster together to predict the unsocialized hostility factor, whereas unsocialized scales did not. The results demonstrate the need for a theoretical reformulation of the two given theories of personality.

Language: en