Probation officers’ judgements: A study using personal construct theory

Exploring the Factors Iranian EFL Institute Teachers Consider in Grading Using Personal Construct Theory

Although grades are the most ubiquitous currency of educational measurement around the globe, their meaning, particularly in understudied settings as in Iran, is still shrouded in mystery. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ class grades by focusing on the less verbalized aspects of grading to see what a grade means. Five Iranian English language teachers working ...

Emotions in Personal Construct Theory: a Review

George Kelly claimed that there were no emotions in Personal Construct Theory (PCT). The present paper notes that Kelly did define four important emotions and reviews the work by McCoy in extending the range of emotions that can be explained by PCT. In addition, the theories of personality formulated by non-PCT psychologists (Paul McReynolds and Prescott Lecky), which are consistent with PCT an...

An Introduction to Psychiatry for Probation Officers

the man who commits a crime knowing that what he is doing is wrong but nevertheless takes a chance that he will get away with it. From here we passed on to consider the limitations of the help that the psychiatrist and the mental health services can give, realising that to ask for a psychiatric report can never solve the probation officers problem as if by waving a magic wand. Indeed it may rai...

A Theory of Probation Supervision

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Among Probation and Parole Officers: A Case Study

Numerous studies have focused on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of police officers and correctional personnel, but few have examined these concepts within community corrections agencies. This study draws on prior research into job satisfaction of criminal system actors and looks at the explanatory power of these concepts for probation and parole officers from one county in a nor...