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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Impulsivity and Schemas for a Hostile World

Postdictors of Violent Behaviour

Matthew James

Correctional Service Canada

James A. Seager

Correctional Service Canada, SeagerJA{at}CSC-SCC.GC.CA

Forty male prisoners at a medium-security Canadian penitentiary completed the I Questionnaire, a measure of impulsivity, and two measures of schemas for a hostile world. Both hypervigilance for hostile words during a dichotic shadowing task and hostile attributions made about actors in social vignettes correlated greater than .30 with a criminal history of persistent violence. Impulsivity did not significantly correlate with the schema measures but correlated .30 with persistent violence. The results provide support for the Serin and Kuriychuk model of aggression that links impulsivity and hostile attributions with persistent male violence.

Key Words: aggression • dichotic listening • hostile attributions • impulsive • schemas

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 50, No. 1, 47-56 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X05279804
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