Barnett Georgia, Wood Jane L
HM Prison Maidstone, Kent, England.
Sex Abuse. 2008 Dec;20(4):444-65. doi: 10.1177/1079063208325202. Epub 2008 Oct 23.
Untreated imprisoned sexual offenders (N = 42) completed interviews and questionnaires to establish the priority they assigned, at the time of their offending, to three "goods" from the good lives model and to gain insight into how they operationalized these goods at that time. The relationship between the priorities offenders assigned to the goods of (a) agency, (b) relatedness, and (c) inner peace at the time of offending and their problem-solving ability was also explored. A measure of problem-solving ability was obtained with the Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised, and a measure of functional and dysfunctional problem solving was obtained from its scales. The results suggest that sexual offenders tend to experience problems in prioritizing, rather than operationalizing, inner peace, as this good is not related to problem-solving ability but tends to be assigned lower priority than agency and relatedness. Although agency and relatedness tend to be given higher importance, and this is related to better problem-solving ability, there appear to be problems with scope in some offenders' good lives conceptions and problems with the capacity, means, and conflict among the means used to achieve these goods. Directions for future research are suggested.
未经治疗的在押性犯罪者（N = 42）完成了访谈和问卷调查，以确定他们在犯罪时赋予美好生活模型中三种“善”的优先级，并深入了解他们当时如何践行这些善。研究还探讨了犯罪者在犯罪时赋予（a）能动性、（b）关联性和（c）内心平静这些善的优先级与他们解决问题能力之间的关系。通过修订后的社会问题解决量表获得了问题解决能力的测量结果，并从其量表中获得了功能性和功能失调性问题解决的测量结果。结果表明，性犯罪者在确定内心平静的优先级方面往往存在问题，而不是在践行内心平静方面，因为这种善与解决问题的能力无关，且其优先级往往低于能动性和关联性。虽然能动性和关联性往往被赋予更高的重要性，且这与更好的解决问题能力相关，但一些犯罪者的美好生活观念在范围上似乎存在问题，在实现这些善所使用的能力、手段以及手段之间的冲突方面也存在问题。文中还提出了未来研究的方向。
