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Personlighetsfaktorer och attityder gentemot klienter bland kriminalvårdspersonal : En kvantitativ enkätstudie / Personality Traits and Attitudes Towards Clients Among Correctional Staff : A Quantitative Survey Study

The aim of the study was to investigate correctional employees’ attitudes towards prisoners and correctional clients in relation to the employees’ own personality, as well as other factors, such as gender, age and years of employment. Using the big-five-inventory-10 and attitudes towards prisoners-scale to study 83 Swedish correctional employees, a correlation(r = 0.352, p = 0.001) was found between the personality trait agreeableness and a more positive attitude towards prisoners. It was also found that female correctional employees in general had a more positive attitude than males (Cohen’s d = 0.755, p < 0.001), and preliminary findings suggested that younger correctional employees might be more likely to hold either extremely positive or extremely negative views of prisoners, compared to older correctional employees.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-111132
Date January 2022
CreatorsAndersson, Per, Strömberg, Niklas
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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