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Wang, Eugene William.

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The use of structural modeling techniques to predict violence potential in mentally ill male prisoners.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The use of structural modeling techniques to predict violence potential in mentally ill male prisoners./
Author:	Wang, Eugene William.
Description:	144 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Paul Zelhart.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Mental Health. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9841395
ISBN:	0591954656

The use of structural modeling techniques to predict violence potential in mentally ill male prisoners.
Wang, Eugene William.

The use of structural modeling techniques to predict violence potential in mentally ill male prisoners. - 144 p.

Adviser: Paul Zelhart.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A&M University - Commerce, 1998.

The literature on human aggression and violence is old and varied. A plethora of different factors has been proposed in the empirical literature as correlates of, and antecedents to aggression and violence. The prediction of individual violence in naturalistic settings is a relatively new field and fraught with many limitations. Monahan and Steadman (1994) noted four basic limitations in the empirical violence prediction literature: impoverished predictor variables, weak criterion variables, constricted validation samples, and unsynchronized research efforts.

ISBN: 0591954656Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017693
Health Sciences, Mental Health.

The use of structural modeling techniques to predict violence potential in mentally ill male prisoners.
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520 $a The literature on human aggression and violence is old and varied. A plethora of different factors has been proposed in the empirical literature as correlates of, and antecedents to aggression and violence. The prediction of individual violence in naturalistic settings is a relatively new field and fraught with many limitations. Monahan and Steadman (1994) noted four basic limitations in the empirical violence prediction literature: impoverished predictor variables, weak criterion variables, constricted validation samples, and unsynchronized research efforts.
520 $a The current study constructed a structural model of the influences on verbal and physical aggression of the following hypothesized latent factors: anger, antisocial personality style, criminal history, impulsiveness, and social context. Independent variables included age, ethnicity, impulsiveness (as measured by the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11). anger and hostility (as measured by the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, BPAQ, and Personality Assessment Inventory, PAI), antisocial personality style (as measured by the PAI), and previous criminal history (as measured by whether or not the current offense was violent, and whether injury occurred as a result). Dependent variables included verbal aggression (as measured by the BPAQ and PAI) and physical aggression (as measured by the BPAQ, PA1, and acts of physical aggression within 60 days of assessment).
520 $a Results indicated that a structural model including anger, antisocial personality style, impulsivity, current violent offense, and ethnicity accounted for 94% of the variance of physical aggression, 87% of the variance of verbal aggression, and 80% of the total variance. The effects of ethnicity and current violent offense were indirect, and mediated through impulsivity and antisocial personality style. A model with anger as a mediating variable was an equally good fit as a model without anger as a mediator. Misfit in the structural models was primarily due to misfit in the measurement model rather than in the structural model.
520 $a Results of the current study lend support to anger, antisocial personality style, and impulsivity as significant antecedents to verbal and physical aggression of mentally ill male offenders in an inpatient psychiatric prison hospital. The effects of ethnicity and previous history of violence are less clear. Limitations are discussed and future directions are suggested.
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