Tyler Nichola, Heffernan Roxanne, Fortune Clare-Ann
School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 15;11:553240. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.553240. eCollection 2020.
Having an external locus of control has been associated with a range of well-supported risk correlates of offending behavior. Further, individuals with an internal locus of control orientation are suggested to be more open to engaging in treatment and are also considered more likely to have successful treatment outcomes. In forensic settings, where individuals are subject to external controls and have little personal autonomy, it is important to consider what treatment approaches might be most successful in reorienting individuals' locus of control. The Good Lives Model (GLM) proposes a strengths-based approach to the rehabilitation of individuals who have offended. Within the GLM, an external locus of control is suggested to be associated with a deficit in the primary good of agency. In this article, we will provide a brief overview of the literature on locus of control and its hypothesized role in offending behavior. We will discuss how an external locus of control orientation is related to personal agency and how strengths-based models, such as the GLM, may assist with reorienting locus of control in individuals who have offended through promoting personal agency.
具有外部控制点与一系列有充分依据的犯罪行为风险相关因素有关。此外，具有内部控制点取向的个体被认为更愿意接受治疗，也被认为更有可能获得成功的治疗结果。在法医环境中，个体受到外部控制且几乎没有个人自主权，因此考虑哪些治疗方法可能最成功地重新调整个体的控制点非常重要。良好生活模型（GLM）提出了一种基于优势的方法来改造犯罪个体。在GLM中，外部控制点被认为与能动性这一主要善的缺陷有关。在本文中，我们将简要概述关于控制点及其在犯罪行为中假定作用的文献。我们将讨论外部控制点取向与个人能动性的关系，以及基于优势的模型，如GLM，如何通过促进个人能动性来帮助重新调整犯罪个体的控制点。
