Sexual and Aggressive Fantasies in Violent and Non-Violent Prison Inmates
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 35 (4) , 326-330
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1971.10119676
Abstract
It was hypothesized that violent inmates who refrain from disciplinary violations while in prison would express more fantasy aggression compared to violent inmates with discipline problems and to well disciplined, non-violent inmates. It was also hypothesized that sexual fantasies would be positively correlated with aggressive fantasies in the whole group. 65 inmates at a state prison, classified on the basis of criminal history and prison discipline, took a fantasy Questionnaire (FQ) and an Experimental TAT booklet (ETAT. The results did not support the first hypothesis, though the differences were in the predicted direction. The second hypothesis was fully supported.Keywords
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