Abstract
Aplicattion of the revised myokinetic psychodiagnostic (MKP-R) test to the study of violence. This paper inform of the results obtained by a replication of a classical work of Emilio Mira (Mira, 1949) on relationship between individual myokinetic responses and violence. The myokinetic measures were obtained from the actions that the body itself generate, or proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitations, in the arm and the shoulder muscles, by means of a graphic method task. This is the first time that the hypothesis of Mira, in the sense of irritability, aggressiveness and extraversion are higher in violent people, is statistically confirmed. Otherwise, that violent people exhibit lesser coherence between dominant and not dominant hand than normal people. Furthermore, statistical differences appear between violent and non violent people on the emotional level, as on the contrary suggested the previous Mira's work. Consequently, we consider that the new technique that we used in this work could be a more reliable instrument for the non verbal assessment of personality, complementary of current verbal questionnaires of personality.
