Validity of the offender version of the Personal Concerns Inventory with adult male prisoners

Personal aspirations and concerns inventory for offenders: Developments in the measurement of offenders' motivation

“…An example of a goal in this area is 'Would like to fall in love and have someone love me -a loving relationship'. Using indices that had reliably loaded onto adaptive and maladaptive motivational profi les during previous studies (Sellen et al, , 2009, the participants' profi les were identifi ed. It can be demonstrated that despite having the same goal, two prisoners can have different motivational structures.…”

“…prison) -and included rating indices specifi c to prison and offending behaviour. Research examining the factor structure and psychometric properties of the PCI-OA confi rmed that the PCI-OA was able to identify the same adaptive and maladaptive motivation profi les in an offender sample as found in other samples (Sellen et al, , 2009. Although analysis revealed that using only the indices from the original PCI (i.e.…”

“…Although analysis revealed that using only the indices from the original PCI (i.e. excluding the prison/offending specifi c indices) produced factors with more robust psychometric properties (Sellen et al, 2009;McMurran et al, in press), it was considered premature to dispense with trying to identify the impact of offending on the attainment of life goals. However, a different measurement format would need to be considered.…”

“…The PCI has been adapted for offenders -the Personal Concerns InventoryOffender Adaptation (PCI-OA; Sellen et al, 2006Sellen et al, , 2009. The PCI was originally adapted by adding two life areas -offending behaviour and current living arrangements (i.e.…”

“…One theoretically based measure of current goals is the Personal Concerns Inventory (PCI; Cox and Klinger, 2004), which was originally intended to assess motivation in people with addictive behaviours. The PCI is based upon a teleological theory, the Theory of Current Concerns, which is described in detail elsewhere (Klinger and Cox, 2004a;Sellen et al, 2009).…”