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Skeem, Jennifer L.; Cooke, David J. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
In our article (J. L. Skeem & D. J. Cooke, 2010), we outlined the dangers inherent in conflating the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. Hare, 1991) with psychopathy itself. In their response, R. Hare and C. Neumann (2010) seemed to agree with key points that the PCL-R should not be confused with psychopathy and that criminal behavior is not…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Crime, Behavior Problems, Psychopathology
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Kennealy, Patrick J.; Skeem, Jennifer L.; Walters, Glenn D.; Camp, Jacqueline – Psychological Assessment, 2010
The utility of psychopathy measures in predicting violence is largely explained by their assessment of social deviance (e.g., antisocial behavior; disinhibition). A key question is whether social deviance "interacts" with the core interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy to predict violence. Do core psychopathic traits multiply the (already…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Violence, Measures (Individuals), Interaction
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Althoff, Robert R.; Ayer, Lynsay A.; Rettew, David C.; Hudziak, James J. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Disorders of self-regulatory behavior are common reasons for referral to child and adolescent clinicians. Here, the authors sought to compare 2 methods of empirically based assessment of children with problems in self-regulatory behavior. Using parental reports on 2,028 children (53% boys) from a U.S. national probability sample of the Child…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Behavior, Measures (Individuals)
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Dedrick, Robert F.; Tan, Tony Xing; Marfo, Kofi – Psychological Assessment, 2008
Confirmatory factor analysis with robust weighted least squares estimation of the 103 dichotomously scored items of the Child Behavior Checklist/6-18 (T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2001) in a sample of 516 girls adopted from China (ages 6.0-15.7 years; M = 8.2, SD = 1.9) indicated that the fit of the 8-factor model was good…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Females, Factor Structure, Child Behavior
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Schmidt, Fred; McKinnon, Lauren; Chattha, Harpreet K.; Brownlee, Keith – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The concurrent and predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) were examined across gender and ethnicity using multiple outcome measures on a community-based sample of 130 adjudicated youths. The PCL:YV demonstrated concurrent validity with externalizing behavior problems but, it is important to note, was also…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Recidivism, Ethnicity