The study found that the three emotional-style factors obtained for school children - social anxiety, malevolent aggression, and social self-esteem - were confirmed for the young offender sample. Lower scores on malevolent aggression and higher scores on social anxiety and social self-esteem were significantly associated with a later first contact with police. High malevolent aggression and lower social anxiety were significantly associated with placement on Governor's reports while in prison (serious misconduct while an inmate); and high malevolent aggression was associated with various violent offenses. The study also found that the three scales related systematically and predictably to a range of other personality and emotional-style scales. In the first of the 2 studies reported, a factor analysis was conducted for 307 male inmates from 4 British prisons. A factor analysis was also conducted for 294 male school children between ages 13 and 16. The samples were administered the EBS, a 65-item measure of adolescent emotional behavior related to the three factors of social anxiety, malevolent aggression, and social self-esteem. The second study involved the predictive validation of the EBS among 255 inmates from 1 of the aforementioned prisons, and 9 inmates from another of the prisons. 4 tables and 36 references