Delinquency and objective personality test factors

Abstract

The Objective-Analytic Personality Test Battery was administered to an offender and a nonoffender Navy enlisted sample to determine the validity of these objective test dimensions in differing delinquent from nondelinquent groups. 8 of the 18 objective test factors differentiated the samples at the .05 confidence level or higher. However, when correlations were computed against number of offenses within the offender sample none of the factors was significantly related to the criterion. (15 ref.) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)