1. Validity of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version in Justice-Involved and At-Risk Adolescents.
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Gillen CTA, MacDougall EAM, Forth AE, Barry CT, and Salekin RT
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- Adolescent, Checklist, Female, Humans, Juvenile Delinquency, Male, Psychometrics, Reproducibility of Results, Residential Facilities, Risk, Self Report, Southeastern United States, Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Antisocial Personality Disorder psychology, Personality Inventory standards, Psychology, Adolescent instrumentation
- Abstract
The current study examined the reliability and validity of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version (YPI-S) in two different samples of at-risk adolescents enrolled in a residential program ( n = 160) and at a detention facility ( n = 60) in the United States. YPI-S scores displayed adequate internal consistency and were moderately associated with concurrent scales on other self-report psychopathy measures and externalizing behaviors. YPI-S scores were moderately related to interviewer-ratings of the construct using the four-factor model of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version. Findings suggest that the YPI-S may be a clinically useful and valid tool for the assessment of psychopathic traits in juvenile settings. This may be particularly true given the differential predictive utility of each of its dimensions.
- Published
- 2019
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