Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders

Karolina Aleksandra Scigala; Nico Ruhara; Joachim Nitschke; Stefan Pfattheicher

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104289

Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders

Karolina Aleksandra Scigala, Nico Ruhara, Joachim Nitschke, Stefan Pfattheicher

Psykologisk Institut

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Does the basic prosocial trait of Honesty-Humility predict crime? We test whether Honesty-Humility (1) differentiates between imprisoned criminal offenders and the national population, (2) predicts the frequency of criminal behavior (the number of reported crimes), and (3) predicts the type of crime leading to imprisonment (violent, non-violent, and sexual). We found that imprisoned criminal offenders had lower levels of Honesty-Humility than the national population, but Honesty-Humility did not predict the number of reported crimes and the type of crime leading to imprisonment in this group. Additionally, we examined if Honesty-Humility predicts violent (defensive and sadistic aggression) and non-violent (cheating) lab antisocial behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders. We found that Honesty-Humility negatively predicted violent, but it did not significantly relate to non-violent antisocial behavior in this group.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	104289
Tidsskrift	Journal of Research in Personality
Vol/bind	101
ISSN	0092-6566
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104289
Status	Udgivet - dec. 2022

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