The main purpose of the study was to obtain an estimate of Upon-Release Future
Expectations of prisoners, and to examine the associations between these
expectations and prisoners&rsquo / psychological problems. In addition, the effect of being
parent, and of time left before release on Upon-Release Future Expectations of
prisoners and their psychological problems were aimed to be examined. For these
purposes, firstly, Upon-Release Future Expectations Scale was developed, and its
reliability was investigated. Positive-Negative Affect Scale, Beck Depression Scale,
the Trait Form of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Hopelessness Scale were used
to test its criterion-related validity. Then, in order to reveal the associations between
the variables, two sets of regression analyses were conducted. In the first regression
analysis, age, gender, time left before release, parental status (i.e., being a parent or
not), and scores of Rosenbaum&rsquo / s Learned Resourcefulness Scale and Basic
Personality Traits Inventory were used as independent variables, and revealed factors
of Upon-Release Future Expectations (i.e., Future Conditions, Perceived Risks, and
Confidence in Coping) were entered as dependent variables. In the second regression
analysis, besides the independent variables of the first analysis, factors of Upon-Release Future Expectations were used as independent variables, and depression,
trait anxiety, and hopelessness scores were entered as dependent variables. The
results did not reveal a main effect for time left before release and parental status.
Both the significant associations and the insignificant associations between the
dependent and the independent variables were discussed. The study was conducted
with 96 female and 84 male prisoners.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612855/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2010 |
| Creators | Karaca, Ozlem |
| Contributors | Gencoz, Tulin |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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