The Szondi Test and the Prediction of Antisocial Behavior

Coulter, Walter M.

doi:10.1080/08853126.1959.10380891

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“…Indeed, the selection method eliminated the "drop-outs," only one boy in the sample had served a training school senrence, fewer than 25% of the delinquents had committed acts which could be rated four or more on the severity continuum, and fewer than 20% had a record of more than one offense in the 2 yr. preceding the study. Many efforts have been made to predict delinquency with the MMPI (Briggs, Wirt, & Johnson, 1961;Gottesman, 1959;Hathaway & Monachesi, 1953, 1957, 1963Rempel, 1958;Wirt & Briggs, 1959), the Rorschach (Taniguchi, DeVos, g: Murakami, 1958), the Szondi (Coulter, 1959), the Glueck and other special instruments. All of these studies have achieved comparable results, and all are implicitly based on the ass~imption that there is a trait, or set of traits, which is antecedent to all delinquent behavior.…”

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Correlates of Delinquent Behavior

Hooke

1971

Psychol Rep

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The goals of this study were to develop an objective method for discriminating delinquent from non-delinquent adolescents and to describe personal and social differences between the rwo groups. 493 adolescents were tested. A discriminant function using variables from che Color Pyramid Test, the High School Personality Questionnaire, and some academic and demographic variables achieved statistically significant discrimination approximating the "hit" rates of other studies. However, the proportion of false positives rendered the technique impractical for g-neral use. The delinquents generally showed less control over their behavior and tended to come from poorer family situations.A new approach to delinquency prediction research was proposed.

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