Original scientific paper
EVALUATION OF THE FACTOR STRUCTURE AND METRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INVENTORY OF CRIMINAL THINKING STYLES
Anita Jandrić Nišević
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet, Odsjek za kriminologiju
Abstract
Theoretical background of research in this paper is The Criminal Lifestyle Theory (Walters, 1998). Theory assumes that criminal behaviour is connected with eight related criminal thinking styles: mollification, cutoff, entitlement, power orientation, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence and discontinuity.
The formulation of these thinking styles was developed through clinical observations and the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was formulated as an assessment tool and contains 10 scales (8 criminal thinking scales and 2 validity scales).
The first objective of the paper is an assessment of the factor structure of the PICTS and the second objective is to examine the psychometric properties of the PICTS.
The findings suggested that from a psychometric perspective the PICTS scales were performing well. The factor analysis performed on all 10 scales has extracted two factors and factor analysis performed only on 8 scales of criminal thinking styles has extracted one factor – a factor of general criminal thinking style.
Keywords
criminal thinking styles; Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)
Hrčak ID:
40731
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Publication date:
28.9.2009.
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