NCJ Number
80463
Date Published
1979
Length
196 pages
Annotation
The study examined the effect of residency in the California Institution for Women in altering the self-concept of 44 female prisoners.
Abstract
The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale was the major study instrument. Sixteen working hypotheses were postulated. The data were analyzed with the Direct-Difference Method (Haber-Runyon, 1969) and a Student T-test. Positive results were achieved in scores measuring self satisfaction, behavior, the physical self, morality and ethics and the personal. Positive results also occurred in the family self score, the social self score, the self-criticism score, the defensive positive score, the general maladjustment score, the psychosis score, the personality disorder score, the neurosis score, and the personality integration score. The subjects demonstrated a significant desirable change in various dimensions of their self-concept structure. Their evaluation and appraisal of themselves had changed in a positive direction in that they were more satisfied with themselves and less self-critical. About 95 references, study instruments, and data tables are included.