1971
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1971.tb00684.x
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A Study of the Jesness Personality Inventory With Scottish Children

Abstract: Summary. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the application of the Jesness Inventory to Scottish children and to compare findings with English and American data. It was administered to 174 approved school and 306 day school boys in the West of Scotland. Normative data for each age group are given. Many of the sub‐scales discriminate well between the two samples. Acquiescent response set is also briefly discussed.

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“…The JI has been shown to be a valid instrument in identifying selected levels of community delinquent behavior as defined by degree of involvement with formal legal processing procedures and in consistently separating this type of delinquent behavior from that of youths who are not so identified and therefore still functioning within local community standards and tolerance. This is best illustrated by the Social Maladjustment subscale, and the present results lend further support to the work of Davies (1967), Mott (1969), andVallance andForrest (1971) in this regard. Jesness (1972) reports a mean Social Maladjustment score of 57.7 for offenders, but present results show even more dramatic differences across contrasted groups of controls (M = 36.56), acting out (M = 61.12), noncharged delinquent (M =66.11), and delinquent (M = 69.19) youths on this dimension.…”
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confidence: 90%
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“…The JI has been shown to be a valid instrument in identifying selected levels of community delinquent behavior as defined by degree of involvement with formal legal processing procedures and in consistently separating this type of delinquent behavior from that of youths who are not so identified and therefore still functioning within local community standards and tolerance. This is best illustrated by the Social Maladjustment subscale, and the present results lend further support to the work of Davies (1967), Mott (1969), andVallance andForrest (1971) in this regard. Jesness (1972) reports a mean Social Maladjustment score of 57.7 for offenders, but present results show even more dramatic differences across contrasted groups of controls (M = 36.56), acting out (M = 61.12), noncharged delinquent (M =66.11), and delinquent (M = 69.19) youths on this dimension.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…A third study by Vallance and Forrest (1971) employed the JI with 174 approvedschool (delinquent) boys and 306 day-school (control) boys, and compared subscale scores at each year from age 12 to 16. Thus, although overall results were consistent with the previous two studies' over the six JI subscales, some age-specific variations in pattern were noted, especially in that 14-yearold groups differed less often than other age pairings.…”
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“…JEPI scores did not significantly differentiate them, whereas the Jesness Inventory scores did (cf. Vallance and Forrest, 1971). The CHE boys were more impulsive.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Investigações de verificação da adaptabilidade do instrumento a outros contextos socioculturais foram realizadas junto à população inglesa (Fisher, 1967;Martin, 1981e Saunders & Davies, 1976, escocesa (Vallance & Forrest, 1971), indiana (Singh, 1978(Singh, , 1980(Singh, , 1983, norte-irlandesa (Harbison, Jardine & Curran, 1978), neozelandesa (Howard, 1981), canadense (Lagier & Dickner, 1988;LeBlanc, McDuff & Tremblay, 1994e Shivrattan, 1988 e australiana (Kahn & Fua, 1995;Putniņš,1980).…”
Section: Personalidade Adolescência E "Delinquência Juvenil"unclassified