The main objectives of the present study were to validate a Portuguese version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device-Self-Report and to evaluate the predictive importance of some constructs in discriminating between inmate delinquent youth and community youth. With a total of 760 participants, male (n = 543) and female (n = 217), divided in an inmate forensic sample (n = 250) and a community sample (n = 510), the authors were able to demonstrate psychometric properties that justify its use with the Portuguese juvenile population, in terms of factor structure, internal consistency, temporal stability, convergent validity, divergent validity, concurrent validity, and cutoff score. The predictive importance of psychopathic traits, self-reported delinquent behavior, and behavior problems on the prediction of sample membership (forensic vs. community) was established by binary logistic regression.
The objective of the present study was to compare incarcerated male and female juvenile offenders regarding psychopathic traits, behavior problems, psychopathy taxon, conduct disorder, self-reported delinquent behavior, and crime seriousness. Within a total forensic sample of 261 detainee participants, subdivided in a male group (n= 217) and a female group (n= 44), statistically significant differences were found. Female juvenile offenders show less callous-unemotional traits, more emotional symptoms, more prosocial behaviors, less self-reported delinquent behavior, and lower crime seriousness. Conduct disorder prevalence was very high, but no statistically significant gender differences were found. The predictive importance of psychopathic traits, behavior problems, psychopathy taxon, and conduct disorder for the prediction of group membership (female versus male) was established by binary logistic regression.
In this article the authors investigated the characteristics of the psychological profiles of 41 child sex offenders (age range=17-43 years; mean age=43 years) placed in state prisons. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II (Millon, 1987) and some descriptive variables (e.g., victim's sex and age, sexual behaviors) were used. The results showed a wide range of possible psychological profiles, some more frequent than others, which don't corroborate the existence of a single typical psychological profile. The results put in question the use of psychological evaluations as juridical evidence.
A medição do funcionamento sexual constitui um pressuposto essencial no estudo da sexualidade feminina. Objetivo: A presente investigação teve como objetivo proceder à validação da versão portuguesa do Índice de Funcionamento Sexual Feminino-6 (FSFI-6), instrumento breve que mede o funcionamento sexual feminino. Material e métodos: Recorreu-se a um total de 375 participantes do sexo feminino, subdivididas em amostra normativa (n = 307) e amostra clínica (n = 68), as quais preencheram o questionário com a tradução para português do FSFI-6. Resultados: Foram demonstradas as principais propriedades psicométricas da validação do FSFI-6. Discussão: A estrutura unidimensional original do FSFI-6 foi replicada e obtiveram-se igualmente valores bons a nível de consistência interna, validade convergente, validade divergente e validade de grupos-conhecidos. Conclusões: As propriedades psicométricas encontradas justificam a utilização do FSFI-6 na população feminina portuguesa.
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