SELF-ESTEEM OF PRISONERS COMMITTING DIRECTLY V INDIRECTLY DESTRUCTIVE CRIMES

• NCJ Number: 42090
• Journal: Perceptual and Motor Skills Volume: 44 Dated: (1977) Pages: 375-380
• Author(s): P YELSMA; J YELSMA
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 6 pages
• Corporate Author: Perceptual and Motor Skills
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: REPRINT

Annotation

SIXTY-TWO PRISONERS FROM A COUNTY JAIL AND A STATE FORENSIC HOSPITAL, HAVING COMMITTED 12 TYPES OF CRIMES, WERE ADMINISTERED THE COOPER-SMITH SELF-ESTEEM QUESTIONNAIRE AND A BIOGRAPHICAL FORM.

Abstract

SELF-ESTEEM SCORES WERE COMPARED ACROSS THREE CLASSIFICATIONS OF DESTRUCTIVEMESS OF CRIMINAL ACTS. A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE WAS FOUND BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM SCORES FOR THOSE PRISONERS WHO WERE INDIRECTLY DESTRUCTIVE TO OTHERS AND THOSE PRISONERS WHO WERE DIRECTLY DESTRUCTIVE TO OTHERS OR TO THEMSELVES. ALSO, PRISONERS WHO WERE ON WORK RELEASE AND/OR IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES TENDED TO HAVE HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM. NO CAUSALITY WAS INFERRED BETWEEN THE INSTRUCTION IN PSYCHOLOGY AND WORK-RELEASE PROGRAMS AND HIGHER LEVELS OF PRISONERS' SELF-ESTEEM.(AUTHOR ABSTRACT)...TWH