Assessment of psychopathy and antisocial behavior

Paulino, Mauro; Simões, Mário R.; Morey, Leslie C.; Penson, Brittany N.; Marques, Paulo Barbosa; Alho, Laura

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-811419-3.00022-4

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“…Second, they conceptualize psychopathy in different ways (i.e., only the PCL:YV includes the antisocial component while the YPI and the ICU do not include it). Third, self-reported measures of psychopathy seem to have difficulties to detect interpersonal and affective characteristics in forensic samples, where motivation for accurate reporting may be low and motivation for deception and manipulation may be high (Paulino et al, 2022). Therefore, multiple sources and measures should be included when assessing persons in forensic samples (Feilhauer et al, 2012;Hare, 2021;Kelsey et al, 2015;Shepherd & Strand, 2016).…”

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Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version

Ivanova-Serokhvostova

Molinuevo

González

et al. 2022

Curr Psychol

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The current study examined the psychometric properties (factor structure, reliability and validity) of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth et al., 2003) in Spanish samples of male justice-involved youths between 15 and 22-years old. The PCL:YV was administered to two groups of youths who were incarcerated (n = 62; n = 95) and a sample of youth on probation (n = 122). Confirmatory factor analyses showed acceptable-to-good fit for three- and four-factor models. The four-factor hierarchical model with a second-order higher factor representing the whole psychopathy construct was considered for further analyses. PCL:YV scores showed high internal consistency and inter-rater reliability. Low-to-moderate convergence with other measures of psychopathic traits evinced an adequate convergent validity. Convergent and discriminant validity of the PCL:YV total scores were also confirmed considering several measures of psychopathology and personality traits. Importantly, the differential external correlates of the PCL:YV factors provide support for a multidimensional conceptualization of the psychopathy construct. Altogether, these results reveal adequate psychometric properties of the PCL:YV in Spanish population of justice-involved youths and justifies its use to assess psychopathic traits in this kind of populations.

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