Abstract

Personality dimensions and prison adjustement. The personality traits related with the antisocial behavior has been consistently identified at numerous and previous research. The more relevants personality traits are impulsivity, venturosemeness, empathy, hostility, emotional stability and intelligence. In this study we treat to test the role of personality traits, intelligence not included, in the inmate behaviour in terms of his adaptation to prison to generalise the main results obtained by the investigation of personality factors and crime. A group of inmates condemned to distinct sentences of confinement because multiple or serious offences, most in terms of long reclusion, was analysed of each inmate and compared with the personality traits before cited. The results show that the best predictor of the difficulties of adaptation to the penitentiary conditions was the Agression_hostility scores. Also Impulsivity and Venturosemeness is more related with the compliment of sentence indexes. One relevant observation in this kind of samples.