Relationship between juvenile delinquents personality characteristics and criminal personality in Jintan City
Abstract：Objective To explore the correlation between personality and individual criminal char‐acteristics in juvenile criminals .Methods Totally 60 juvenile criminals in Jintan City were selected and assessed by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory questionnaire (MMPI) and Chinese Offender Psychological Assessment-Personality Inventory (COPA -PI) ,respectively assessing their personality characteristics and individual psychological crime .Results (1)Compared with the national norm ,the M M PI scores of hypochondria ,depression ,hysteria ,psychopathic personality ,paranoia ,psychastheni‐a ,schizophrenia ,hypomania were significantly higher (P < 0 .01) and each factor of COPA -PI ,only alert factor was lower (P< 0 .05) .(2)The MMPI depression factor was negatively related with subordi‐nation ,impulsion ,violence ,abnormal psychology and criminal thinking factor of COPA -PI (P <0.05);The MMPI hysteria scores were negative correlation with subordination ,impulsion ,anomalism , and criminal thinking score of COPA -PI (P< 0 .05) .Morbid personality factor and compassion factor was negatively correlated (P< 0 .05);Schizophrenia factor and violence factor was positively correlated (P <0 .05);Hypomania factor and impulsion ,awareness ,violence ,psychopathology and criminal thinking factor was positively correlated (P < 0 .05) ,and negatively related with low self -esteem (P < 0 .05);The social introversion factor of MMPI was negatively related with extraversion factor of COPA -PI (P < 0 .01) .(3)MMPI's hypomania factor had positive effect on alert ,psychopathology of COPA -PI (P< 0 .05) ,on low self -esteem factor had a negative prediction (P< 0 .05);Morbid personality fac‐tor had a positive effect on impulse and violence factor (P < 0 .05) ,on the sympathy factor had a back‐ward prediction (P < 0 .05);Psychasthenia ,hypochondriacal factor had positive effect on violence and subordinate factors (P< 0 .05) ,social introversion ,hysteria factor had backward prediction on extrover‐sion and subordinate factor (P< 0 .01) .Conclusions Juvenile delinquents has certain personality devia‐tion ,and may be related with the form of some criminal personality psychology .
Keywords：Juvenile delinquentsPersonalityCriminal psychologyMMPICOPA -PI
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 353-357 )