@article{ref1,
title="Risk-taking behaviour and criminal offending: an investigation of sensation seeking and the Eysenck personality questionnaire",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2002",
author="Knust, Sonja and Stewart, Anna L.",
volume="46",
number="5",
pages="586-602",
abstract="This study investigated relationships between hostility, Zuckerman's sensation seeking, and Eysenck and Eysenck's personality scales within a prison population, to explore whether they could be conceptualized in terms of two socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking factors. Participants included 79 incarcerated adult male offenders (age range = 18-62). Findings support the distinction between socialized and unsocialized sensation seeking and suggest that these factors represent more overarching personality factors. Psychoticism was a clear marker of the more broad impulsive, unsocialized sensation seeking factor, rather than representing a supertrait in its own right. This factor was also represented by lie, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility scales. Findings relating to hostility also supported such a reformulation, as unsocialized scales did cluster together to predict the unsocialized hostility factor, whereas unsocialized scales did not. The results demonstrate the need for a theoretical reformulation of the two given theories of personality.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}