TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Social Problem-Solving Skills and Psychological Distress Among Incarcerated Young Offenders: The Issue of Bullying and Victimization
JO  - Cognitive therapy and research
A1  - Biggam, Fiona H.
A1  - Power, Kevin G.
SP  - 307
EP  - 326
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
N2  - This research examines the relationships between means-end problem solving and psychological distress in a group of incarcerated Scottish young offenders who had been identified within the institution as bullies, victims of bullying, or a non-bully/non-victim control group. The Means-End Problem Solving Procedure (MEPS) was used alongside the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Profile of Mood States (POMS), and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS). On all of these measures, the results suggested a greater level of distress and poorer means-end thinking in the group of victims of bullying. Although distress was also correlated to the age of the respondent and the total amount of time they had spent incarcerated, ANCOVA revealed main effects for the bullying status of the individual (i.e., bully, victim, non-bully/non-victim) with regard to distress when age and total amount of time incarcerated were covariates. Numerous deficits in problem-solving skills as measured by the MEPS were found to correlate with higher levels of distress. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Springer)  Scotland Foreign Countries Juvenile Inmate Incarcerated Inmate Studies Juvenile Bully Juvenile Victim Inmate Offender Inmate Victim Offender Characteristics Victim Characteristics Juvenile Correctional Institution Bullying In Correctional Institution Bullying Effects Bully Offender Bully Victim Psychological Victimization Effects Problem Solving Skills 02-02<p />
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SN  - 0147-5916
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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