NCJ Number
125999
Journal
Journal of Crime and Justice Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Dated: (1988) Pages: 123-141
Date Published
1988
Length
19 pages
Annotation
The present study explored the degree of stress, anger, and curiosity manifested in three groups of youthful offender inmates and correctional officers who were incarcerated and worked in three Florida prisons.
Abstract
The institutions were chosen because they housed the least violent and most violent inmates in the system. The measures used consisted of standardized paper and pencil tests designed to assess anxiety, anger, and curiosity. In addition, several nonstandardized measures of environmental stressors and of symptoms which may have resulted from stress were also employed. Analyses of these data revealed that significant differences occurred on a number of the measures when inmates and staff were compared across institutions. In addition, when the inmates' and staff data were compared to appropriate normative group scores a number of significant differences were found. The results were interpreted in terms of both institutional and interpersonal factors. 2 tables and 18 references. (Author abstract)