@article{ref1,
title="Officer attitudes towards adult male prisoners who self-harm: development of an attitudinal measure and investigation of sex differences",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="2007",
author="Ireland, Jane L. and Quinn, Kathleen",
volume="33",
number="1",
pages="63-72",
abstract="PURPOSE: The aim of the current study was to explore attitudes towards self-harm in a sample of prison officers, with subsidiary aims of assessing if these attitudes alter as a function of the prisoner's behavior and the sex of the participant. METHOD: One hundred and sixty-two officers (100 men and 62 women) completed a general measure of their attitudes towards prisoners and one designed to assess Attitudes towards Prisoners who Self-Harm (APSH). Participants rated their perceptions of two adult male prisoners depicted in vignettes. The vignettes depicted identical types of self-harm but varied the behavioral characteristics of the prisoners involved, with one depicted as &quot;well-behaved&quot; and the other as &quot;disruptive&quot;. RESULTS: Women were more likely than men to report positive attitudes towards self-harm and in particular were less likely than men to endorse negative myths regarding self-harm. The prisoner depicted as &quot;disruptive&quot; invoked increased negative attitudes than the &quot;well-behaved&quot; prisoner. This finding was consistent across sex. CONCLUSION: The current study indicates that APSH are comprised of a number of components that were influenced by the sex of the participant and the behavioral characteristics of the prisoners depicted. The implications of these findings to practice are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="10.1002/ab.20168",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.20168"
}