Date of Award
1998
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Dr. Stephen O’Keefe
Second Advisor
Dr. Robert Wilson
Third Advisor
Dr. Allan LaVoie
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Robert Smith
Abstract
Because previous research findings on the Jesness Inventory have been relatively inconsistent, the current study was conducted to further examine this instrument's reliability, convergent validity and classificatory ability. A 3 to 11 month test-retest interval used with 42 adjudicated adolescents yielded a mean correlation coefficient of .60 and suggested that the stability of the 11 individual subscales is questionable. Using 42 adjudicated adolescents and 48 outpatients, many significant correlations were obtained between the Jesness Inventory and the Adolescent Multiphasic Personality Inventory subscales. Similarly, the Asocial Index accurately classified the adjudicated adolescents as delinquent and the outpatient adolescents as nondelinquent, as 64% of the sample was correctly classified. Current findings suggest that the Jesness Inventory may be useful for clinicians who wish to detect delinquency proneness and assess progress.
Subject(s)
Jesness inventory.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
Recommended Citation
Hayes-Harris, Stephanie J., "The clinical utility of the Jesness Inventory" (1998). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1648.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1648
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