What was the method used?

Click the three personality traits he studied

It was a longitudinal study carried out over ____ years

Heaven looked for correlations between the personality traits and self-reported d_________

What were the weaknesses of his sample?

282 13-15 year olds from a private Australian Catholic school

Which traits were found to be associated with delinquency?

Psychoticism was most strongly associated

What was the pattern of delinquency by gender?

The questionnaire into delinquency may have suffered from S_____ D________ B___

Even though it was anonymous, the participants may have not wanted to admit to all the delinquent things they had done

The study had low validity of which kinds?

Personality and delinquency too complex to fully measure with questionnaires (construct); sample had bias and wasn't generalisable

It is not possible to prove c____ and e_____ with correlational studies like this one.

It might be that delinquency changes personality, not the other way around