The study was designed to develop a Chinese Prisonization Index that can be uniformly used in prisonization research and perhaps as a correctional decision-making tool. Development of the questionnaire, administering the questionnaire to 173 inmates of eastern Taiwan, retesting a portion of the initial sample at least two weeks later, obtaining inmate file data, and data analysis. These concluded as the following. The scale was construct according to theoretical meaningful patterns and related concept. A 62-item prisonization questionnaire was developed which utilized a summative scale model. Its construct validity, the resulting correlation matrix was subjected to a maximum likelihood analysis with varimax rotation. The analysis yielded four components. The four factors were the attitude to authority, affiliation and identification with staff, post-prison expectations and inmate codes. Only loadings >.40 were considered salient. The explanatory powers of each factor was 30.11%、30.29%、35.76%、26.08%. The total amount of variance accounted for by the integrated model is 40.01%. The scale was found to have high internal consistency, a reliability coefficient of. 89, test-retest reliability was high correlation(r=0.739, p<.05) and moderately high correlations with alien scale (r=.20, p<.05), but no correlations with helplessness scale (r=-.090, p>.05). Basically, the scale can serve as a reliable self-reported prisonization assessment.
The study was designed to develop a Chinese Prisonization Index that can be uniformly used in prisonization research and perhaps as a correctional decision-making tool. Development of the questionnaire, administering the questionnaire to 173 inmates of eastern Taiwan, retesting a portion of the initial sample at least two weeks later, obtaining inmate file data, and data analysis. These concluded as the following. The scale was construct according to theoretical meaningful patterns and related concept. A 62-item prisonization questionnaire was developed which utilized a summative scale model. Its construct validity, the resulting correlation matrix was subjected to a maximum likelihood analysis with varimax rotation. The analysis yielded four components. The four factors were the attitude to authority, affiliation and identification with staff, post-prison expectations and inmate codes. Only loadings >.40 were considered salient. The explanatory powers of each factor was 30.11%、30.29%、35.76%、26.08%. The total amount of variance accounted for by the integrated model is 40.01%. The scale was found to have high internal consistency, a reliability coefficient of. 89, test-retest reliability was high correlation(r=0.739, p<.05) and moderately high correlations with alien scale (r=.20, p<.05), but no correlations with helplessness scale (r=-.090, p>.05). Basically, the scale can serve as a reliable self-reported prisonization assessment.