Predictors of aggression in Southeast Asian female prisoners
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- 作者：Violet Lee ; Vincent Egan
- 关键词：Personality ; Aggression ; Impulsivity ; Violence ; Women ; Southeast Asia
- 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：January, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：54
- 期：1
- 页码：113-117
- 全文大小：201 K
文摘
Although aggression is universal, few studies examine violence from an Asian perspective, and even fewer consider female offenders from Southeast Asia. The current study examined whether correlates of aggression in western male offenders are similarly effective for predicting aggression in female inmates (n = 114) from a local prison in Singapore. Aggression was measured using the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (comprising dimensions of physical and verbal aggression, anger and hostility) which we sought to predict from measures of impulsivity, general personality traits (neuroticism, agreeableness), psychopathy, and empathy. Impulsivity and agreeableness were significant predictors of self-reported physical and verbal aggression and anger, whereas neuroticism contributed to anger. Neuroticism and psychopathy were significant predictors of hostility. Empathy did not significantly predict any of the four aggression dimensions. Personality, impulsivity and psychopathy appear fair predictors of aggression for female offenders from Southeast Asia, just as they are for the western male offenders.