NCJ Number
89900
Journal
Perceptual and Motor Skills Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Dated: (1982) Pages: 919-924
Date Published
1982
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Criminal-psychiatric offenders may exhibit greater repression than the acute and criminal-schizophrenic groups.
Abstract
A total of 73 male acute schizophrenics, schizophrenic-criminal, criminal-psychiatric persons, and university students were compared on Rotter's locus of control and Byrne's repression-sensitization questionnaires. The criminal-psychiatric population and university students appeared more repressed than the schizophrenic-criminal and acute schizophrenic groups on the repression-sensitization measure. No significant differences were observed for the locus of control measure. Footnotes, 1 tables, and 21 references are included. (Author abstract modified)