Increased concerns about the incidence of sex offenders, and desire to develop better treatment and intervention programs for sex offenders, has instigated research examining personality profiles of sex offenders. Public ...

The objective of this study was to systematically review the psychometric properties of the measures used in assessing the psychosocial well-being status of children and adolescents. This review updates and expands on the ...

The emergence of psychopathy as a well-established construct in the assessment of adult criminal offenders has stimulated great interest in measuring psychopathy traits in adolescents. The most useful role for a brief ...

The social, emotional and behavioural adjustment of 128 adolescents (13-17-year-old) in long-term residential group care in Lithuania was compared with group of 272 adolescents of the same sex brought up in two-parent ...

Studies about bullying have identified it as a public health problem, with serious academic and psychosocial consequences. The extant literature defines bullying as an intentional phenomenon, repeated over time, which ...

Contemporary studies seek to identify re-offending behavior nature and its background. There are a lot of distinguished criminal factors, which lead to re-offending behavior. Researches have divided these factors to two ...

Recently, many studies have sought to identify the causes of criminal behaviour and to find out what should be done in order to reduce criminal behaviour. The attention of contemporary researchers is focused on the ...

Policy awareness increases the likelihood of policy-congruent behavior. Yet individuals may differ in the extent to which they notice certain policies; thus, psychological factors that explain behavior can have a differing ...

The focus of this paper – analysis of associations of emotional and behavioral problems of referred and non-referred children with family socio-demographic variables. For this purpose, we used data from clinical sample (N ...

Identity formation is a core developmental task, the importance of which is not limited to adolescence but pertains to emerging adulthood as well (Arnett, 2004). In our study, we consider a three-factor identity model ...