Psychosocial Factors associated with Social Reintegration of Parolees

CRESPI MELINA; MIKULIC ISABEL MARÍA

Ciudad del Cabo

Congreso; 30º Congreso Internacional de Psicología; 2012

Unión Internacional de Ciencia Psicológica

This study presents the results obtained by studying the social reintegration of individuals who, having committed a crime and served a sentence have regained their freedom. Social reintegration is understood as a phenomenon which integrates several levels of analysis: individual, relational, institutional and macro (Prilleltensky, 2000). The individual level is related in this work with the variables: future time perspective, life satisfaction and coping; the relationship level with social support; the institutional level with the legal and institutional responses; and the macro level with the social prejudice. From this ecological approach is to analyze the predictive capacity that these variables have on social reintegration. This study included 160 conditional release, to which were administered: the Social Reintegration Questionnaire, the Interview to assess Future Time Perspective, the Community Social Support Questionnaire, the Questionnaire for assessing Legal and Institutional Responses, the Social Prejudice Scale - all constructed in this study-, the Coping Responses Inventory (Moos, 1993, adaptation Mikulic, 1998) and the Satisfaction Scale with Life (Pavot, & Diener, 1993, adaptation Mikulic, Cassullo, & Crespi, 2009). Analysis was performed stepwise multiple regression. The variables that best predict the social reintegration of those released are: social prejudice, coping responses to behavioral approach, life satisfaction, the feasibility of future goals, age of onset in the offense, future temporal attitude and social support. These variables together explain 56% of the total variance of the scores. The results are useful for the prevention of recidivism.