Psychology Department, HMP Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
Aggress Behav. 2011 May-Jun;37(3):278-88. doi: 10.1002/ab.20386. Epub 2011 Jan 11.
This study examined aggression and offending motivation. Participants were 206 adult male prisoners. All completed the Aggression Motivation Questionnaire [Ireland, 2008], the Offending Motivation Questionnaire [Gudjonsson and Sigurdsson, 2004], the Multidimensional Anger Inventory [Siegel, 1986] and the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding [Paulhus, 1991]. It was predicted that aggression motivation would separate into two factors, one reflecting proactive aggression and the other reactive aggression. It was predicted that aggression motives would vary by offence type. It was also predicted that the offending motives identified in previous research (i.e. Excitement, Compliance, Provocation and Financial) would be reflected in this study. Levels of anger and social desirability were also examined for their relationship with aggression and offending motives. Results indicated that aggression motivation separated into four core motives; protection, social recognition, perceived positive outcome, and pleasure. Violent and nonviolent offenders were found to differ in their underlying motives for recent acts of aggression. Anger was related to all core aggression motives, whereas social desirability was related only to some. Offending motives were similar to previous research although some differences were found. Results are discussed with reference to their theoretical and clinical implications.
本研究考察了攻击行为和犯罪动机。参与者为 206 名成年男性囚犯。所有人都完成了《攻击动机问卷》[爱尔兰，2008]、《犯罪动机问卷》[古德琼森和西格森，2004]、《多维愤怒量表》[西格尔，1986]和《平衡的 desirable responding 量表》[保罗赫斯，1991]。研究预测攻击动机将分为两个因素，一个反映主动攻击，另一个反映反应性攻击。研究预测攻击动机将因犯罪类型而异。还预测了先前研究中确定的犯罪动机（即兴奋、合规、挑衅和财务）将在本研究中得到反映。愤怒和社会期望水平也被检查了它们与攻击和犯罪动机的关系。结果表明，攻击动机分为四个核心动机：保护、社会认可、感知积极结果和愉悦。暴力和非暴力罪犯在最近攻击行为的潜在动机上存在差异。愤怒与所有核心攻击动机都有关，而社会期望仅与其中一些有关。犯罪动机与先前的研究相似，尽管也发现了一些差异。结果参考其理论和临床意义进行了讨论。
