Personality and Crime: A Meta-analysis of Studies on Criminals' Personality / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To review studies on criminals' personality which used EPQ as measurement.Methods:Meta-analysis was used to review 33 studies.Results:Mean effect size delta of four dimensions (P, E, N, L) were 0.62,0.06,0.61,-0.14 in turn.Conclusions:Criminals have significantly higher level on psychoticism and neuroticism than others. There is no significant difference between the criminals and the commons because of heterogeneity of criminous types.