Research On The Juvenile Offenders’ Attentional Bias And The Relation Between Aggression And Personality

Juvenile crime problem has caught serious concern of social and psychology who strive to sort out the current theories in order to provide scientific basis and effective approach for reforming juvenile delinquent. Generally, the criminality of juvenile offenders is relevant to their aggression, so this research starts from the perspective of aggression of juvenile offenders and can be divided into three parts:The first part is theoretical review.The second part is to study the juvenile offenders’ attentional bias in neutral words and aggressive words by using experimental method, emotional Stroop paradigm, furthering to find out whether there is any disparity between attentional bias and crime type.The last part is to study the difference between the aggression and personality of juvenile offenders in demographic variables by using questionnaire survey, namely Aggression Questionnaire and Big Five Inventory.meantime the personality’s predictive effect for aggression will be probed.Overall, the following conclusions have been taken from this research:1. The juvenile offenders have attentional bias on aggressive material, but their attentional bias has no significant differences among crime types.2. Violent juvenile offenders have significant differences among non-violent counterparts on the aggression and the two factors physical aggression and anger.3. The aggression and the two factors of physical aggression and anger of juvenile offenders have significantly negative correlation with the agreeableness and sense of responsibility of personality, while significantly positive correlation with neuroticism. Besides, the hostile factors in aggression are significantly negatively correlated with sense of responsibility, but significantly positively correlated with neuroticism; moreover the verbal attack is only significantly correlated with neuroticism.4. The agreeableness, sense of responsibility and neuroticism in Big Five personality are significant predictor for juvenile offenders’aggression, besides, these three features have significant predictive effect on the aggression of violent juvenile offenders, but only the agreeableness and neuroticism have significant predictive effect on non-violent counterparts.