Furnham A
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1984 Jul;25(3):409-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1984.tb00160.x.
A group of over 200 'normal' adolescents were administered self-report measures of personality (extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism), social skills, anomie and delinquency in order to establish which of three theories best predicted delinquency. Eysenck's personality factors, particularly psychoticism, correlated most highly with delinquency, while there was no correlation at all between self-reported social skills and delinquency. Overall the males tended to have lower neuroticism but higher psychoticism and anomie scores. The results are discussed in terms of the various psychological theories of delinquency, and the implications of these results for treatment are noted. It was pointed out that because this study was restricted to well-educated, middle class, above-average sixth-form college students the findings may not generalize to a group of convicted or institutionalized offenders. The limitations inherent in self-report measures and in studies of this sort are also considered.
对200多名“正常”青少年进行了人格（外向性、神经质和精神质）、社交技能、失范和犯罪行为的自我报告测量，以确定三种理论中哪一种最能预测犯罪行为。艾森克的人格因素，尤其是精神质，与犯罪行为的相关性最高，而自我报告的社交技能与犯罪行为之间根本没有相关性。总体而言，男性的神经质得分较低，但精神质和失范得分较高。根据各种犯罪行为的心理学理论对结果进行了讨论，并指出了这些结果对治疗的影响。有人指出，由于这项研究仅限于受过良好教育、中产阶级、高于平均水平的六年级大学生，研究结果可能不适用于被定罪或被监禁的罪犯群体。同时也考虑了自我报告测量和此类研究中固有的局限性。
