IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jcjust/v39y2011i4p329-337.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review

Author

Listed:
  • Jones, Shayne E.
  • Miller, Joshua D.
  • Lynam, Donald R.

Abstract

Purpose Although the relationship between personality and antisocial behaviors has been widely examined and empirically supported in the psychological literature, relatively few efforts to study this relationship have appeared in mainstream criminology.Materials and methods The current study focuses on the domains and facets from the Five-Factor Model of personality, and how they are related to antisocial and aggressive behaviors.Results The meta-analytic findings indicate that the higher-order traits of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism demonstrate the most consistent relationships with these outcomes. At the lower-order trait level, straightforwardness, compliance, and altruism from Agreeableness, deliberation from Conscientiousness, angry hostility from Neuroticism, and warmth from Extraversion were among the strongest correlates.Conclusion The findings are consistent with previous meta-analytic studies, thus providing compelling support for their utility in understanding antisocial and aggressive behavior. As such, they should be afforded greater theoretical and empirical attention within criminology.

Suggested Citation

  • Jones, Shayne E. & Miller, Joshua D. & Lynam, Donald R., 2011. "Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 329-337, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:39:y:2011:i:4:p:329-337
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004723521100050X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. DeLisi, Matt & Vaughn, Michael G., 2014. "Foundation for a temperament-based theory of antisocial behavior and criminal justice system involvement," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 10-25.
    2. José Antonio González-Fuentes & Juan Manuel Moreno-Manso & Mónica Guerrero-Molina & Eloísa Guerrero-Barona & María Elena García-Baamonde, 2022. "Moral Disengagement Mechanisms and Personality Dimensions Implicit to Homophobia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-12, July.
    3. Chen, Chia-Yi & Lien, Yin-Ju, 2018. "Trajectories of co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and deviant behaviors: The influences of perceived social support and personal characteristics," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 174-182.
    4. Dylan Minor & Nicola Persico & Deborah M. Weiss, 2018. "Criminal background and job performance," IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 7(1), pages 1-49, December.
    5. DeLisi, Matt & Vaughn, Michael G., 2015. "Ingredients for Criminality Require Genes, Temperament, and Psychopathic Personality," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 290-294.
    6. Ribeiro da Silva, Diana & Rijo, Daniel & Salekin, Randall T., 2012. "Child and adolescent psychopathy: A state-of-the-art reflection on the construct and etiological theories," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 40(4), pages 269-277.
    7. Jones, Shayne & Dinkins, Barbara & Sleep, Chelsea E. & Lynam, Donald R. & Miller, Joshua D., 2021. "The Add Health psychopathy scale: Assessing its construct validity," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    8. Monika Verbalyte & Christoph Keitel & Krista Howard, 2022. "Online Trolls: Unaffectionate Psychopaths or Just Lonely Outcasts and Angry Partisans?," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(4), pages 396-410.
    9. Collison, Katherine L. & Miller, Joshua D. & Gaughan, Eric T. & Widiger, Thomas A. & Lynam, Donald R., 2016. "Development and validation of the super-short form of the Elemental Psychopathy Assessment," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 143-150.
    10. Joshua C Gray & Max M Owens & Courtland S Hyatt & Joshua D Miller, 2018. "No evidence for morphometric associations of the amygdala and hippocampus with the five-factor model personality traits in relatively healthy young adults," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, September.
    11. Grosch, Kerstin & Rau, Holger A., 2017. "Do discriminatory pay regimes unleash antisocial behavior?," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 315, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
    12. DeLisi, Matt, 2018. "Race and (antisocial) personality," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 32-37.
    13. Halibiyati, Halibati & Aratuly, Kuanysh & Serikhan, Adilgazy & Yergali, Adlet M. & Beaver, Kevin M., 2024. "Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    14. Vize, Colin E. & Miller, Joshua D. & Lynam, Donald R., 2018. "FFM facets and their relations with different forms of antisocial behavior: An expanded meta-analysis," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 67-75.
    15. Francis Vergunst & Caitlin M. Prentice & Massimiliano Orri & Helen L. Berry & Vincent Paquin & Frank Vitaro & Richard Tremblay & Sylvana M. Côté & Marie-Claude Geoffroy, 2024. "Association of youth climate change worry with present and past mental health symptoms: a longitudinal population-based study," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 177(10), pages 1-20, October.
    16. Seigfried-Spellar, Kathryn C. & Villacís-Vukadinović, Nicolás & Lynam, Donald R., 2017. "Computer criminal behavior is related to psychopathy and other antisocial behavior," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 67-73.
    17. Fox, Bryanna H. & Jennings, Wesley G. & Farrington, David P., 2015. "Bringing psychopathy into developmental and life-course criminology theories and research," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 274-289.
    18. Walters, Glenn D. & DeLisi, Matt, 2013. "Antisocial cognition and crime continuity: Cognitive mediation of the past crime-future crime relationship," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 135-140.
    19. Garofalo, Carlo & Velotti, Patrizia, 2017. "Negative emotionality and aggression in violent offenders: The moderating role of emotion dysregulation," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 9-16.
    20. Funke, Katja & Hirschauer, Norbert & Peth, Denise & Mußhoff, Oliver & Becker, Oliver Arránz, 2019. "Can personality traits explain compliance behaviour? - A study of compliance with water-protection rules in German agriculture," SocArXiv jnexr, Center for Open Science.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:39:y:2011:i:4:p:329-337. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcrimjus .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.