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Prison blues: Wellbeing among prisoners

This research offers an insight as to how length of imprisonment, personality traits and dimensions of emotional climate may lead to the experience of compromised wellbeing of prisoners. Data were collected within a larger project in all prisons and jails in Croatia, among 641 male prisoners (Mage=40 years, SD=11.69), using both global life satisfaction measure and satisfaction with health, relationships, and social support, BFI-10 and Emotional Climate Scale. Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that length of imprisonment explained 5% of prisoners’ wellbeing, personality traits explained 7 to 13% of specific items of wellbeing, while emotional climate explained additional 1 to 5% of the wellbeing variance. As the most consistent predictors of wellbeing emerged emotional stability among personality traits, and positive emotionality among emotional climate dimensions. These results reiterate the importance of positive emotionality in resilience and adjustment of prisoners.

prisoners, wellbeing, personality traits, emotional climate

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