Personality structure among prisoners: How valid is the five-factor model, and can it offer support for Eysenck's theory of criminality?

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-50

  Ireland, Jane L ^a   Ireland, Carol A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ASHWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FIVE FACTOR MODEL; HUMAN; INTELLECT; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CRIMINALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PRISONERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251474707     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: 14712857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.770     Document Type: Article

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