Understanding criminals' thinking: Further examination of the measure of offender thinking styles-revised

Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 442-452

  Mandracchia, Jon T ^a   Morgan, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

criminal thinking; factor analysis; Measure of Offender Thinking Styles; MOTS; offenders; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CRIMINOLOGY; EGO; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THINKING; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COGNITION; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CRIMINALS; EGO; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TEXAS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82155176215     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191110377595     Document Type: Article

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