READING AND EVALUATING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL LITERATURE
Professor Presley
Liberty University
Evaluation Form
NAME: Sophie Shabaz Date: 02.25.2022
Reference Citation in APA format
For example:
Dolan, Mairead. “Personality and Neuropsychological Function in Violent, Sexual and Arson
Offenders.” Medicine, science, and the law. 42.1 (2002): 34–43. Web.
1.
1. OUTLINE: Use the exact titles
and subtitles used in the article
Use alphanumeric style
I. (APA level 1)
A. (APA level 2)
1. (APA level 3)
a. (APA level 4)
(1) (APA level 5)
II. (APA level 1) and so on
I. Abstract
II. Introduction
III. Materials and Methods
A. Paitents
IV. Procudure
A. Personality-Psychometric
Assessments
B. Impulsivity/aggression
C. Neuripsychological assessment
D. Data Handling
E. Statistical analysis
V. Results
A. Characteristics of the offender
sample
B. Personality profiles / typologies
C. Personaloity dimensional scores
D. Impulsivity / aggression scores
E. Individual neuropsychological test
READING AND EVALUATING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL LITERATURE
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VI. Discussion
A. Methodoligacal issues
B. Personality profiles
C. Neuropsychological data
D. Frontal taskstemproal function
VII. Acknowledgements
VIII. References
2. PURPOSE: (Cite, as accurately
as possible, the author’s purpose
for writing the article. What was
the research question?)
Explanatory, evaluative,
exploratory or descriptive
Was a theory or theoretical
perspective presented?
[Abstract, summary, conclusion]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
“to test the hypothesis that incarcerated offender populations will not
differ in neuropsychological test performance if patients are matched
on age, intelligence and personality profile, particularly if impulsive
aggressive traits and confounds such as substance misuse and
performance anxiety are controlled for.” P. 34
3. KEYWORDS: (Keywords)
[Keywords after the abstract] or
KEY QUESTION: (Your goal is
to figure out the key question that
was in the author’s mind when he
or she wrote the article. In other
words, what key question is
addressed?)
[the key issue is…., the main
point is…]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
To figure out if personality and neuropsychologicval funcitons affect
criminality.
4. LITERATURE REVIEW
(Identify the most important and
relevant studies, prior literature)
[Introduction, previous literature
says, other studies]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
“Following on from case reports which suggest
associations between traumatic brain injury and
antisocial behaviour, including aggression and
sexual deviance.” P.34
READING AND EVALUATING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL LITERATURE
Professor Presley
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B.
5. MOST IMPORTANT
INFORMATION: Key transitions
Transition signals
1. Addition-also, another, next,
first, other
2. Cause and effect-because,
since, therefore, as a result
3. Comparison-like, equally, just
as
4. Contrast-but, yet, on the
contrary, however
5. Emphasis-most, above all, key
factor, especially
6. Illustration-for example, for
instance
7. Conclusion – finally, in sum,
in conclusion
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
“In addition to DSM-III-R personality disorder
diagnosis, all patients completed the SHAPS
(Blackburn, 1982; 1986).” P.35
“most are categorised as SHAPS psychopaths with
secondary psychopaths predominating in the sex
offender sample. We did not find any statistically
significant group differences in SHAPS typologies
or DSM Clusters across offender groups.” P.40
“For example, 'What is the height of the post office
tower?' Patients with anterior brain lesions perform
poorly on this task (Shallice and Evans, 1978).” p.36
6. METHODOLOGY(Key
methods used)
[Methods: What model is used,
what is the experimental design,
our data was from, Are there any
stated hypothesis? If so what are
the independent of dependent
variables? What are the units of
analysis (sample)? Were there
any instruments used? Was this
a cross sectional or longitudinal
design or other design like
experiment, survey, or
observation? What are the
sample characteristics-selection,
participation rate?]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
They used DSM-III-R to determine MHA levels. “The SHAPS
provides 4 personality profiles. Low and high scores respectively on
the withdrawal dimension distinguish primary and secondary
psychopaths; both score high on the belligerence dimension.” P.36
“The SHAPS contains 10 scales (Lie, Anxiety, Extroversion, Hostility,
Introversion, Depression, Tension, Psychopathic Deviance,
Impulsivity and Aggression) and provides distinct personality
groupings based on the orthogonal dimensions of belligerence (related
to impulsivity and hostility) and withdrawal (which loads items
relating to anxiety.” P.35
7. RESULTS/DISCUSSION
(Tables, data, graphical
representations, meaning)
[Results: Were there any causal
assertions? Did data support the
conclusions or assertions? the
results show, Table 1 shows]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
“We recruited incarcerated DSM-III-R personality
disordered offenders from maximumsecurity
hospital settings so that we control to some degree
for environmental influences e.g. exposure to drugs
and alcohol which may have affect tested
performance. We screened participants for Axis I
pathology, substance abuse dependence and head
injury in order to control the impact of these
influences on personality disorder diagnosis and
READING AND EVALUATING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL LITERATURE
Professor Presley
Liberty University
dimensional assessments of personality traits and
neuropsychological test performance. The high level
of co-morbid DSM-III-R axis II pathology in our
offenders, with overlap between diagnoses, very
much fits with previous studies of co-morbidity in
British maximum security hospital samples (Coid,
1992), but may not be representative of offenders in
prison and community settings.” P.39
8. LIMITATIONS/DISCUSSION
(Limitations of the study)
[Limitations, Discussion: One
limitation of our study is, other
limitations, Other studies
show…]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
That sometimes people offend not beacsue of personality but because
they have free will and just because they sincerely want to.
9. CONCLUSION
(The main conclusion(s) of the
author(s))
[Conclusion: In summary,
Finally, In conclusion, Future
studies?]
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(p. xx or pp. xx-xxx)]
“In this study, we did not find any differences between
offender groups in terms of age, IQ, educational level,
and state anxiety or depression scores, which might
account for any observed difference in
neuropsychological test performance.” P.40
10. YOUR OPINION OF THE
PAPER
Poor, fair, good, very good, excellent. WHY?
I liked this article but I wish there was more transition words to put
into this assignment, and it kinda seemed like a broad topic to talk
about. I liked the concept I just got lost in the broadness of this article.
