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Published Online: October 1971

Juvenile Delinquents View Their Impulsivity

RICHARD C. MAROHN, DANIEL OFFER, and ERIC OSTROVAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.4.418

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This study of 24 hospitalized adolescent delinquents revealed that the delinquents were well aware of their impulsivity. This awareness was related not to age, sex, race, police contact, or incarceration but to objective measures of impulsivity. In some impulsive delinquents, internal awareness of their intrapsychic inability to control and modulate impulses was blocked and was projected onto the outside world; it was experienced as a feeling of doom or helplessness about the future.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 4 • October 1971

Pages: 418 - 423

PubMed: 5098606

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Published in print: October 1971

Published online: 1 April 2006

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RICHARD C. MAROHN

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DANIEL OFFER

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ERIC OSTROV

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Chief, Michael Reese Unit, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Ill. 60612

Associate Director, Psychosomatic & Psychiatric Institute, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

Research Associate, Michael Reese Unit, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Ill. 60612

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Juvenile Delinquents View Their Impulsivity

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