University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences
Abstract
Teorijsko ishodište na kojemu se temelji ovaj rad je teorija kriminalnog životnog stila (Walters, 1990) koja pretpostavlja postojanje osam kriminalnih stilova razmišljanja koji podupiru kriminalno ponašanje i omogućuju egzistiranje u kriminalnom životnom stilu.
U svrhu procjenjivanja kriminalnih stilova razmišljanja kreiran je Psihološki upitnik kriminalnih stilova razmišljanja (PICTS) (Walters, 1995) koji se sastoji od 80 varijabli organiziranih na10 skala.
Cilj rada je provjera faktorske strukture i metrijskih karakteristika skala PICTS-a.
Rezultati ukazuju na postojanje 2 faktora. Prvi faktor obuhvaća 8 skala kriminalnih stilova razmišljanja, a drugi faktor čine dvije validacijske skale Upitnika.
Metrijske karakteristike skala kriminalnih stilova razmišljanja su zadovoljavajuće, dok je pouzdanost validacijskih skala vrlo niska.
Ovi rezultati poklapaju se s rezultatima brojnih svjetskih istraživanja.Theoretical background of research in this paper is The Criminal Lifestyle Theory (Walters, 1998). Theory assumes that criminal behaviour is connected with eight related criminal thinking styles: mollification, cutoff, entitlement, power orientation, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence and discontinuity.
The formulation of these thinking styles was developed through clinical observations and the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was formulated as an assessment tool and contains 10 scales (8 criminal thinking scales and 2 validity scales).
The first objective of the paper is an assessment of the factor structure of the PICTS and the second objective is to examine the psychometric properties of the PICTS.
The findings suggested that from a psychometric perspective the PICTS scales were performing well. The factor analysis performed on all 10 scales has extracted two factors and factor analysis performed only on 8 scales of criminal thinking styles has extracted one factor – a factor of general criminal thinking style
