Assessment of Overcontrolled Hostility in Adolescence

Historical and Personality Correlates to the Violence Patterns of Juveniles Tried as Adults

This study examined the utility of several personality indices for explaining variance in the frequency, variety, and situational correlates of past violence exhibited by imprisoned juveniles after controlling for historical risk factors. One hundred prison inmates ages 16 to 21 who were juveniles at the time of their adjudication completed personality measures assessing overcontrolled hostilit...

Overcontrolled hostility, empathy, and egocentric balance in violent and nonviolent psychiatric offenders.

Assertion and overcontrolled hostility among mentally disordered murderers.

The Overcontrolled Hostility (Q-H) subscale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory differentiates murderers without previous criminal records from men who have committed less serious assaults and murderers with extensive histories of assault. Murderers scoring high on the O-H scale are described as passive and unassertive on the basis of their histories, and psychometric correlates ...

Resilient, undercontrolled, and overcontrolled personality prototypes among persons with spinal cord injury.

A sample of 199 persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) were assessed on Big Five personality dimensions using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) at admission to an inpatient medical rehabilitation program. A cluster analysis of the baseline NEO-FFI yielded 3 cluster prototypes that resemble resilient, undercontrolled, and overcontrolled prototypes identified in many pr...

Hostility, depressive symptoms, and smoking in early adolescence.

Using logistic and multiple regression, we examined the association between hostility, level of depressive symptoms, and smoking in a sample of 1699 ethnically diverse students in California. Self-reports were collected twice from each student, at the beginning of the 6th and 7th grade years. Among 6th graders who had not smoked, depressive symptoms and hostility were associated with smoking in...