Examining Prison Inmates' Attitudes and Internal Emotional States
Completed
Conditions studied: Forgiveness
In brief
This study is the first part of a two-tiered research project to propose a novel approach-forgiveness therapy-to corrections. This study is a non-intervention study and aims to demonstrate the need to introduce the concepts of forgiveness and Forgiveness Therapy within prisons. This study is focused on the extent to which men in a maximum-security prison experienced considerable injustice against them (such as in a family context as he was growing up) prior to committing serious crimes. Variables associated with this prior unjust treatment included the level of forgiveness and variables of current psychological well-being. Since this study provided the rationale and participants' matching data (eligibility) for the subsequent interventional study (Study 2, "Proposing Forgiveness Therapy in Prison") in which psychological treatments applied to the inmates, investigator refer to this study as Study 1.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04374357
- Run by
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- People needed
- 103
- Starts
- 2017-03-20
- Expected to finish
- 2017-11-11
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-06-09
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male prison inmates, who have never participated in forgiveness therapies, were recruited voluntarily from a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin, United States.
You may not qualify if…
- have participated in forgiveness workshops
- are not from maximum security prison
- female; (due to the all-male prison context)
- are illiterate (cannot write their stories and finish the scales)
- have been diagnosed with cognitive disorders or cognitive function impairment
- receive one-on-one treatment with the psychologist in prison
Where it is running
- Columbia Correctional Institution — Portage, Wisconsin, United States
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