Sample 6: applicability to delinquents.—
Sample 6, used for the psychometric
assessment pf tbe SROM's applicability
to a special population, consisted of 60 adjudicated
male and female juvenile delinquents
incarcerated in institutions under
control of the Ohio Department of Youth
Services. The sample was composed largely
of working-class and welfare subjects with
some middle-class representation, and
ranged in age from 14 to 18 (mean age 16.5)years. Forty-seven delinquents originally
tested were not used because their SROM
protocols were invalidated by the exclusion
rules (see Instruments below; also, "Derivation"
under Results section).