Daniela Hosser

Technische Universität Braunschweig · Institute of Psychology

This longitudinal study examined the role of empathy in predicting recidivism among young adult offenders. During their prison terms, 748 male offenders between the ages of 15 and 28 were administered the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980). Official criminal records were used to determine general as well as violent recidivism during...

Shame and guilt are moral emotions that result from deviations from internalized standards. Both constructs differ with respect to their genesis, to the emotions accompanying them, and to their behavioral consequences. Shame is associated with a loss of self-respect, social withdrawal, anger, and aggression. Guilt, on the other hand, supports proso...

As the state of research on the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and recidivism can be considered controversial, our prospective study investigated whether ADHD predicts recidivism in a sample of 283 male, German, young adult prisoners. Currently existing ADHD symptoms and symptoms that were present in childhood...

Zusammenfassung Befunde zum „Reasoning-and-Rehabilitation“-Programm (R&R) aus dem deutschen Strafvollzug (Hosser und Weber 2021) zeigen, dass Teilnehmer des R&R im Behandlungsverlauf positive Einstellungs- und Verhaltensveränderungen durchlaufen. Offen ist die Frage, inwieweit sich diese Veränderungen auf die Legalbewährung auswirken. Um dies zu kl...

Objective: The present study examined the role of self-esteem stabilization processes in response to restrictive developmental conditions in early adulthood. It did so by investigating accommodative adjustments among incarcerated young adults. It was argued that an adjustment of how an individual desires to be to how they actually perceive themsel...

Zusammenfassung Das „Reasoning-and-Rehabilitation“-Programm (R&R) wird in zahlreichen Einrichtungen des deutschen Straf- und Maßregelvollzugs angewendet und wurde international bereits eingehend evaluiert. Dennoch fehlten bislang Untersuchungen zur Behandlungseffektivität aus dem deutschen Strafvollzug. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wurde die Effektivitä...

Zusammenfassung Der Justizvollzug sieht sich zunehmenden Herausforderungen gegenüber. So verändert sich einerseits ihre Klientel in Richtung eines multikulturellen Schmelztiegels, was neue Phänomene mit sich bringt, wie z. B. Radikalisierungsprozesse oder kriminogene und organisierte Clanstrukturen. Es findet sich aber auch eine wachsende Kerngrupp...

Using latent class growth analysis, this prospective longitudinal study aimed to identify different trajectories of delinquency among prisoners ( N = 2352) of youth correctional facilities. Criminal behaviour was monitored with crime register data on individuals from ages 14 to 25. Analyses revealed four developmental pathways: early- and late-star...

Religion is seen as one of the main causes of honor violence; yet, empirical studies investigating this purported relationship remain scarce. Therefore, we investigated how individual and social religious practices, religious fundamentalism, and demographic variables contribute to support for honor killings of women and men. We analyzed multination...

Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten setzt komplexe Fertigkeiten wie Recherchieren, Strukturieren, Verfassen und zielgruppenorientiertes Präsentieren voraus. Studierende können deren Anforderungsgrad jedoch häufig schlecht einschätzen und meiden daher die Auseinandersetzung damit. Zudem erschweren heterogene Leistungsstände der Studierenden, hohe Teilnehmen...

Religiosity is considered to be a protective factor in delinquency research; however, recently published studies found contradictory results with respect to the influence of religiosity on German Muslims. It therefore remained unclear whetherMuslim religiosity is associated with diminished or increased delinquency. The question arises whether indiv...

Purpose Although fraud is widespread, little remains known about the specific psychological characteristics of fraudsters that can be used in prevention or treatment. The purpose of this paper is therefore to examine the socio-emotional competencies and moral judgement abilities of convicted fraudsters in comparison with other groups of offenders....

Low emotional responsiveness promotes utilitarian decision-making on moral dilemmas. Based on the assumption that fraudsters use their emotional competence to deceive their victims, their emotional responsiveness is not expected to be protective against utilitarian decision-making. The present study investigates the key role of emotional responsive...

Purpose – The social interaction between a deceiver and the deceived opponent is a determining factor for deception that involves emotions. Hence, besides a great amount of cognitive control, a successful lie also requires the regulation of emotions, especially when deceiving somebody face-to-face. The purpose of this paper is to investigate emotio...

Objective: This study evaluates the Musical Concentration Training with Pepe ("MusiKo mit Pepe") for children aged 5 to 10 years with attention deficits. Method: Using a pre-post-control design (N = 108), changes in attention capacity are measured by the Test of Attentional Performance for Children (KiTAP), whereas changes in the quality of life...

In this study, we examined the (incremental) predictive validity of Andrews and Bonta’s Central Eight risk factors for recidivism in the German youth correctional system. The sample consisted of N = 589 male youth inmates who were incarcerated for the first time. Recidivism during the 78 months’ follow-up was assessed using official data. The Centr...

This longitudinal study examined stability and change of delinquency among young offenders after their release. The sample consists of male Germans (N = 2405) who were incarcerated in five juvenile prisons in different federal states. Standardized interviews were repeatedly conducted with the prisoners during imprisonment and after release to gathe...

Purpose: This prospective study investigated the predictive validity of Self-Control (SC) for several forms of criminal recidivism (general, property, violence, sexual). Design: N = 1838 male prisoners were interviewed while serving a prison sentence. Personality traits known to be related to SC served as operationalization of SC. Cluster analyses...

Das kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Gruppentraining Sozialer Kompetenzen [GSK; 16] hat sich auch beim Einsatz im Strafvollzug bewährt [28]. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob durch eine gezielt differenzierende Diagnostik im Vorfeld des Trainings und eine darauf basierende homogene Zusammenstellung der Trainingsgruppen im Hinblick auf unsicher...

Zusammenfassung. Das Freiburger Personlichkeitsinventar (FPI-R), ein haufig im Strafvollzug verwendeter Test, wird anhand einer Inhaftiertenstichprobe bezuglich seiner psychometrischen Eigenschaften (Validitat und Reliabilitat) untersucht. Grundlage sind die Testdaten von 775 mannlichen deutschen Inhaftierten aus dem Jugendstrafvollzug, die den Tes...

Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit der Subkultur junger Aussiedler im Jugendstrafvollzug. Es wird untersucht, inwiefern sich Aussiedler von ihren gebürtigen deutschen Mitinsassen hinsichtlich Merkmalen ihrer subkulturellen Einbindung unterscheiden. Die Datenbasis liefert das Längsschnittprojekt "Entwicklungsfolgen der Jugendstrafe", innerhalb...

Shame and guilt are moral emotions that result from deviations from internalized standards. Both constructs differ with respect to their genesis, to the emotions accompanying them, and to their behavioral consequences. Shame is associated with a loss of self-respect, social withdrawal, anger, and aggression. Guilt, on the other hand, supports proso...

Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) was used to assess empathy in a sample of 839 male prisoners aged 15–28. Because recent studies have questioned the usability of the IRI with offenders, psychometric properties of the instrument were analyzed while taking intelligence and verbal skills into consideration as potential influencing factors....

The study investigates the cumulative impact of child maltreatment and victimization in adolescence on violent behavior in young adulthood in a nonclinical high-risk sample. The sample consists of 1,526 incarcerated young men (14 to 24 years) who were interviewed with standardized instruments during their prison term. Violent and nonviolent offende...

In 2000, a social therapy unit treating young sexual offenders was established at the youth prison in Hameln, Germany. A cognitive-behavioral treatment program was introduced for male adolescents and young adults serving sentences for sexual abuse or rape. A pre-post treatment comparison of questionnaire data in a sample of 17 sexual offenders aged...

This study compares young adult sexual delinquents and violent offenders via relevant psychological variables of two main areas: (i) anti-social personality factors (aggression, impulsivity, hostility), and (ii) predisposing personality factors (self-esteem, self-efficacy, empathy, neutralisation). Participants are 78 violent and 27 sexual offender...

Zusammenfassung: Scham und Schuldgefühle zählen zu den moralischen Emotionen, die durch Abweichung von internalisierten Normen entstehen. Sie dienen im Sinne eines Monitoring als Instanzen der Handlungskontrolle und sind eine Voraussetzung für Selbstkontrolle bzw. Handlungssteuerung. Scham und Schuldgefühle unterscheiden sich hinsichtlich des Entst...

The negative effect of a custodial sentence on juvenile self-esteem is discussed. It is argued that individual coping resources offer an explanation for the inconclusive findings of earlier studies in this field. Findings of a cross-sectional study of 299 prisoners (14 to 24 years) are presented. The results show that the stability of self-esteem d...

Auf der Basis einer bundesweiten repräsentativen deutschen Stichprobe (N = 3284) werden zwei in der psychologischen Forschung verwendete Skalen zur Erfassung von sozialer Unterstützung und Einsamkeit auf empirische Überschneidungen hin untersucht. Dabei handelt es sich um den 'Fragebogen zur sozialen Unterstützung' (SOZU-K-22) von Sommer und Fydric...