Criminal thinking styles and emotional intelligence in Egyptian offenders. (25th January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Megreya, Ahmed M.
• Is Part Of: Criminal behaviour and mental health. Volume 23:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 56
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2013-01-25
• Subjects: Forensic psychiatry -- Periodicals; Criminal behavior -- Periodicals; Criminal psychology -- Periodicals; Criminal Psychology -- Periodicals; Dangerous Behavior -- Periodicals; Mental Disorders -- Periodicals; Comportement criminel; Criminel; Psychologie; Santé mentale; Psychiatrie médico-légale; Psychologie criminelle; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 364.305
• DOI: 10.1002/cbm.1854
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-9664

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <sec id="cbm1854-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <title>Background</title> <p>The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. Increasingly growing evidence indicates that criminal thinking styles vary considerably among individuals, and these individual variations appear to be crucial for a full understanding of criminal behaviour.</p> </sec> <sec id="cbm1854-sec-0002" sec-type="section"> <title>Aims</title> <p>This study aimed to examine individual differences in criminal thinking as a function of emotional intelligence.</p> </sec> <sec id="cbm1854-sec-0003" sec-type="section"> <title>Methods</title> <p>A group of 56 Egyptian male prisoners completed the PICTS and Bar‐On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ‐i). The correlations between these assessments were examined using a series of Pearson correlations coefficients, with Bonferroni correction.</p> </sec> <sec id="cbm1854-sec-0004" sec-type="section"> <title>Results</title> <p>General criminal thinking, reactive criminal thinking and five criminal thinking styles (mollification, cutoff, power orientation, cognitive indolence and discontinuity) negatively correlated with emotional intelligence. On the other hand, proactive criminal thinking and three criminal thinking styles (entitlement, superoptimism and sentimentality) did not associate with emotional intelligence.</p> </sec> <sec id="cbm1854-sec-0005" sec-type="section"> <title>Conclusions</title> <p>Emotional intelligence is an important correlate of individual differences in criminal thinking, especially its reactive aspects. Practical implications of this suggestion were discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</p> </sec> </abstract>