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dc.contributor.authorKnust, S
dc.contributor.authorStewart, AL
dc.contributor.editorGeorge Palermo
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:11:47Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:11:47Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.modified2009-09-01T05:59:22Z
dc.identifier.issn0306-624X
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/030662402236742
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/6551
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications, Inc.
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://ijo.sagepub.com/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom586
dc.relation.ispartofpageto601
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume46
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.titleRisk-taking behaviour and criminal offending: an investigation of sensation seeking and the eysenck personality questionnaire
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2002 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2002
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gro.griffith.authorStewart, Anna L.


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