Predicting institutional and postrelease adjustment of delinquent boys.

Cowden, James E.; Pacht, Asher R.

doi:10.1037/h0024859

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“…To assess the predictive value of each cue variable, the cue variable ratings of each of the four raters (separately and combined) were correlated both with their global prognostic ratings of postrelease adjustment and with ratings of actual postrelease adjustment of 5s made independently by other raters. The results of a previous study (Cowden & Pacht, 1967) .17 -.16 -.11…”

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Relationship of selected psychosocial variables to prognostic judgments.

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Pacht²

1969

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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The way in which clinicians use selected cue variables in making prognostic judgments of the postrelease adjustment of institutionalized delinquents was assessed in this study. Cue variables (concepts commonly used in clinicians' reports, typically with some prognostic significance) were correlated with prognostic judgments of postrelease adjustment and also with actual ratings of postrelease adjustment. The clinicians were reasonably accurate, as a group, in estimating the prognostic significance of the cue variables. Cue variables more readily inferred from behavior (institutional adjustment, hostility, home environment, and maturity) were related most consistently and accurately to postrelease prognosis, while those less easily inferred from behavior (anxiety, dependency, and guilt) showed a less clear-cut relationship. More communication among clinicians, particularly in their usage of concepts describing intrapsychic processes, was thus recommended.

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Relationship of selected psychosocial variables to prognostic judgments.

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1969

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“…Still others assigned severity ratings arbitrarily along a 7-point scale (Ganzer and Sarason, 1973) or even a 20-point scale (Cowden and Pacht, 1967).…”

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Four studies utilizing twelve sample groups culminated in a Depth of Delinquency Index, for use in evaluations of juvenile treatment programs. The comprehensive index established seriousness values for all common juvemle offenses. Seriousness values were expressed in standard score units ranging from 2 to 99, obtained by transforming the relative magnitude ratings made by over 500 subjects. Consistency of offense rankings across the four studies as well as earlier studies substantiated the theory of a cultural consensus about offense seriousness, which provides a stable basis for the DDIscores. The only major value shift over the past two decades occurred with drug offense ratings, AUTHORS' NOTE: Several individuals contributed to the earher surveys.A whole series of replications demonstrated that seriousness estimates remained remarkably stable over time, distance, and different types of raters (Normandeau, 1966;Wellford and Wiatrowski, 1975). University students were usually polled in these studies, but surveys of offender populations (Figlio, 1975) and law enforcement groups (Sellin and Wolfgang, 1964), yielded similar sets of offense values.The 141 magnitude scores published by Sellin and Wolfgang in 1964 ranged from 308 to .31 in a one-dimensional scale. However, several problems prevented the use of the scale as an index of values. The list of 141 offenses focused more on adult crimes and was incomplete for juvenile offenses. Other problems occurred with status offenses, drug

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“…Clinicians in correctional institutions are typically asked to classify and make recommendations about newly admitted inmates based on judgments as to their probable subsequent adjustment within the institution. The results of previous studies conducted at two Wisconsin correctional institutions for delinquent boys suggested that age at first admission to the institution and global prognostic ratings by clinicians and social workers were significantly related to institutional and postrelease adjustment (Cowden, 1966, Cowden & Pacht, 1967. While these two variables were among the best predictors of the subsequent adjustment of delinquent boys, the magnitudes of the correlations between the individual pre-621 dictor and criterion measures were not very high (within the range of .26 to .54).…”

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Prediction enhancement through the use of moderator variables.

Cowden¹

1969

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In order to increase the ability of clinicians to predict the subsequent behavior of inmates in a juvenile correctional institution, moderator variables (i.e., variables which were correlated with degree of predictability of inmates as measured by the relative magnitudes of the difference (D) scores between predictor and criterion variables) were developed using a construction sample of 76 Ss. These moderator variables were then used to remove less predictable Ss from a cross-validation sample, resulting in a moderate increase in the correlation between predictor and criterion variables when one-third of the least predictable 5s were removed, and a more substantial increase when one-half of the least predictable 5s were similarly removed. Hence, this method showed considerable potential value as a means of facilitating more accurate classifications of inmates.

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Predicting institutional and postrelease adjustment of delinquent boys.

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Relationship of selected psychosocial variables to prognostic judgments.

Relationship of selected psychosocial variables to prognostic judgments.

Development of the DDI

Prediction enhancement through the use of moderator variables.

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