NCJ Number
100991
Journal
Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science Volume: 17 Issue: 4 Dated: (1985) Pages: 387-399
Date Published
1985
Length
11 pages
Annotation
The Carlson Psychological Survey, a personality inventory designed for use with young adult incarcerates, was administered to three groups of younger, Canadian juvenile offenders in order to calculate norms for adolescents, assess scale reliabilities, and measure related psychometric characteristics.
Abstract
The 410 subjects, residents of the Willingdon Youth Detention Center in Burnaby, British Columbia, had a median age between 15 and 16 and included both remanded and sentenced juvenile offenders. Subjects also were administered a social desirability measure among other tests. The test's four content scales (Chemical Abuse, Thought Disturbance, Anti-Social tendencies, and Self-Depreciation) were found to be internally consistent, reliable over time (7-day retest interval), moderately intercorrelated, and generally unrelated to age. Adolescent norms were calculated and were found to be similar to Carlson's (1981) young adult norms. Overall, the Carlson Psychological Inventory Survey is recommended as a personality screening test for young offenders. 19 references. (Author abstract modified)