Abstract
A Fear-of-Change (FOC) scale for the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was derived from a set of 24 candidate items. Responses supplied by 100 male medium security federal prisoners and 100 female minimum security federal prison camp inmates were used to construct and initially evaluate an 8-item FOC scale. The scale displayed a moderate degree of internal consistency and moderately high test-retest stability after 2 and 12 weeks, and correlated significantly with a previously administered measure of existential fear. It is concluded that while the FOC is an internally consistent and reasonably stable measure with some evidence of preliminary validity, more research is needed to determine whether it actually assesses fear of change.
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