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Are Personality Traits Predictors of Police Misconduct?

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العنوان: Are Personality Traits Predictors of Police Misconduct?
المؤلفون: Lynch, Sierra N.
المصدر: Journal of Police & Criminal Psychology; Dec2024, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p764-780, 17p
مصطلحات موضوعية: COGNITIVE psychology, MINNESOTA Multiphasic Personality Inventory, PERSONALITY assessment, PERSONALITY, RACISM
مستخلص: Several forms of police misconduct exist, including the inappropriate use of a weapon, sexual misconduct, and racially offensive behaviors, and deserve more attention in the literature. More recent literature suggests that there may be personality predictors of misconduct. Specifically, aggression, having unstable relationships, a lack of empathy, thrill-seeking behavior, and poor impulse control, may contribute to officer misconduct. The current study examined a group of 642 first-year police officers through a series of mostly logistic regression analyses to determine if antisocial or borderline personality traits predict inappropriate use of a weapon, sexual misconduct, and racially offensive behavior using scales from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition (MMPI-2; the antisocial practices and the psychopathic deviance scales) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; the borderline and antisocial scales). Most of the hypotheses were not supported by the findings. Participants who had more antisocial traits, as assessed by MMPI-2, were less likely to be accused of racially offensive behavior. Officers who had more borderline characteristics, as assessed by the MMPI-2, were less likely to be accused of engagement in any misconduct, specifically sexual misconduct. However, participants who had more borderline traits, as assessed by the PAI, were more likely to engage in sexual misconduct, but less likely to engage in any misconduct overall. Demographic covariates also were found to be related to all three forms of misconduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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قاعدة البيانات: Complementary Index
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تدمد:08820783
DOI:10.1007/s11896-024-09701-x