Further validation of antisocial personality types

Describes more fully the 7 delinquent personality types previously derived by J. Kulik, K. Stein, and T. Sarbin . Personality types were based on the scores of 346 institutionalized delinquent boys on 4 dimensions: delinquent role, drug usage, parental defiance, and assaultiveness. Validation was tested in relation to 5 classes of psychological and social variables: family relations, verbal and intellectual achievement, self-acceptance, delinquency, and miscellaneous. A 3-yr follow-up of police records as a measure of recidivism was included. Significant findings were utilized as definitional characteristics in describing each of the 7 types. Several general findings emerged: (a) a combination of typological pattern and magnitude of dimensional scores rather than either factor alone was a better predictor of future recidivism; and (b) among milder delinquent types, race may be operating as a bias in determining incarceration. Future research on the problem of discovering differential methods of intervention and behavior change in relation to the 7 types is discussed. (17 ref.)