RT Article
T1 Testing the construct validity of the PICTS proactive and reactive scores against six putative measures of proactive and reactive criminal thinking
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 23
IS 1
SP 1
OP 14
A1 Walters, Glenn D. 1954-
A1 Yurvati, Erica
A2 Yurvati, Erica
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1735503983
AB This study tested the construct validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) Proactive (P) and Reactive (R) scores. The layperson version of the PICTS was administered to 277 (65 male, 212 female) undergraduates and correlated with putative measures of proactive and reactive criminal thinking. The hypothesis that P and the proactive scales would correlate ≥.30 in zero-order correlations and regression equations controlling for R, whereas R and the reactive scales would correlate ≥.30 in zero-order correlations and regression equations controlling for P found support in this study. This corroborates the construct validity of the PICTS P and R scores and indicates that self-report measures of moral disengagement and neutralization, on the one hand, and impulsivity and risk taking, on the other hand, may serve as effective proxies for proactive and reactive criminal thinking, respectively.
K1 Psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles
K1 Construct Validity
K1 Proactive
K1 Reactive
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2016.1217335