Personality and Crime

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34 - Personality and Crime

from Part VII - Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020

Donald R. Lynam ,

Colin E. Vize and

Joshua D. Miller

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Philip J. Corr and

Gerald Matthews

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Philip J. Corr: Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews: Affiliation:
University of Central Florida

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At its most basic level, personality refers to relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving manifested by individuals. Personality is internal; it refers to characteristics that reside within the individual. Personality has broad effects and accounts for stable behavior patterns across time and situations. Personality is important to a variety of negative and positive outcomes including academic achievement (Poropat, 2009), work performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991) and satisfaction (Judge, Heller & Mount, 2002), leadership (Judge, Bono, Ilies & Gerhardt, 2002), physical (Bogg & Roberts, 2004) and psychological health (Malouff, Thorsteinsson & Schutte, 2005; Samuel & Widiger, 2008), subjective wellbeing (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998) and relationship satisfaction (Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar & Rooke, 2010).

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