RT Article
T1 Capacity for Self-Control and Individuals' Interest in Exercising Self-Control
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 20
IS 2
SP 143
OP 172
A1 Tittle, Charles R. 1939-
A2 Ward, David A. 1933-
A2 Grasmick, Harold G.
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767142951
AB We identify and elaborate a conceptual distinction between capability for self-control and the desire to exercise it, and employ data from a city survey to explore the empirical viability of such a differentiation. Separate scales measuring ability and desire to exercise self-control both prove to be significant and moderately strong predictors of several measures of criminal/deviant behavior, showing independent, cumulative, and interactive relationships with each other. For some measures of crime/deviance, self-control capability is most effective when the individual's interest in exercising self-control is low but its effect is greatly reduced or eliminated when desire to exercise self-control desire is high. Combinations of capability for self-control and interest in exercising it prove to be particularly good predictors of the absolute level of misbehavior.
K1 Criminal Behavior
K1 Deviant behavior
K1 interest in exercising self-control
K1 capacity for self-control
K1 Self-control
DO 10.1023/B:JOQC.0000029092.81837.74