| Abstract [eng] |
Inmates’ Adaptation to Imprisonment and It’s Predictors, Viktorija Mikalauskienė, Vilnius, Vilnius university, 2019, p. 66. Adaptation in a corrective institution is a psychological and behavioural response by a confined person to the environment of a corrective institution and the confinement situation (Fedock, 2017). Maladaptation to corrective institution is considered to be related to a lower degree of motivation to change behaviour and to recidivism (Loper, 2002; Zamble & Porporino, 1988). Although foreign scientists have been exploring adaptation of persons confined in a corrective institution and related factors for several decades, studies in this field are particularly missing in Lithuania. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify factors predictive of adaptation in a corrective institution. The research involved convicted men from various corrective institutions, aged between 18 and 68 years. Adaptation was evaluated using Prison Problem Scale (Zamble & Porporino, 1988), Beck Depression Inventory-II (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, Brown, Epstein, & Steer, 1988). The research established that adaptation is best predicted by criminal attitudes and communication with friends or a partner – those research participants with less expressed criminal attitudes and those who maintained relationship with friends or a partner during incarceration could be distinguished by a better adaptation. The factors researched explain up to 22 % of adaptation. Key words: inmate, adaptation, correctional institution. |
