Predicting Police Officer Employment Using the California Psychological Inventory Police and Public Safety

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
California Psychological Inventory ◽  
Psychological Inventory

Changes in Scores on California Psychological Inventory among Seminarians: What Happened to the Class of ′68?

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Query
Keyword(s):  
Grade Point Averages ◽  
California Psychological Inventory ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Psychological Inventory

To test the hypothesis that ministers' family milieu fosters mixed masculine-feminine traits, a 10-yr. follow-up study was conducted where seminarians were retested with the California Psychological Inventory. Among the seminarians, 28 were ordained and 6 were not. Support was obtained for the hypothesis. Grade point averages were significantly higher among the ordained. This study is restricted to Catholic seminarians; making a good impression became important after ordination, not before; three scales which were significant among Protestant seminarians in previous research were not found in this study, suggesting dissimilarity among denominations.

Construct Validity: Person-Orientation and Value-Orientation Scales of the California Psychological Inventory

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip G. Romine ◽  
Orville Crowell
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
California Psychological Inventory ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderate Relationship ◽  
Psychological Inventory ◽  
Person Orientation

The study investigated the construct validity of the California Psychological Inventory person-orientation and value-orientation scales by examining their relationships to Eysenck's extraversion and neuroticism dimensions. Both inventories were administered to 211 undergraduate students. While there was obviously a moderate relationship of .51 to .54 between the Person Orientation scores and Eysenck's extraversion, only about 25% of the variance in each of the two scales was common. The magnitude of the relationship between the Value Orientation scale and neurotic-extravert/stable-introvert group membership was slightly greater.

Policing in divided societies: Officer inclusion, citizen cooperation, and crime prevention

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 580-604
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Nanes
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Divided Societies ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Domestic Security

How does demographic inclusion in domestic security institutions affect security provision in divided societies? Police officers rely on information from citizens to identify problems and allocate resources efficiently. Where conflict along identity lines erodes trust between citizens and the state, the police face difficulty obtaining information, hindering their ability to provide public safety. I argue that inclusiveness in the police rank-and-file addresses this problem by fostering cooperation from previously excluded segments of society. I test this argument in Israel and its conflict between the Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority. First, a survey of 804 Israeli citizens shows that non-Jews who perceive the police as more inclusive are more willing to provide the police with information. I then use original panel data on police officer demographics at every police station in Israel over a six year period to show that increases in police inclusiveness are associated with decreases in crime.

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