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Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Vol. 34(1), 2001. Pp. 1-8.
D 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. A// rights reserved.
Development of a Fear-of-Change Scale
for the Psychological Inventory
of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)
GLENN D. WALTERS
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA
ABSTRACT A Fear-of-Change (FOC) scale for the Psychological Inven-
tory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was derived from a set of 24 can-
didate items. Responses supplied by 100 male medium security federal
prisoners and 100 female minimum security federal prison camp inmates
were used to construct and initially evaluate an 8-item FOC scale. The scale
displayed a moderate degree of internal consistency and moderately high
test-retest stability after 2 and 12 weeks, and correlated significantly with a
previously administered measure of existential fear. It is concluded that
while the FOC is an internally consistent and reasonably stable measure
with some evidence of preliminary validity, more research is needed to de-
termine whether it actually assesses fear of change. [Article copies available
for afee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HA WORTH E-mail
address: <getinfo@haworthpressinc.com> Website: <http://www.HaworthPress.
com> 0 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]
KEYWORDS Fear, change, existential, offenders, PICTS, psychological
assessment
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