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Fanti, Kostas A.; Henrich, Christopher C. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
The current study investigates the longitudinal association, across a 1-year period, between self-esteem and narcissism with bullying and peer victimization. The sample consisted of 1,416 (50.1% girls) Greek Cypriot early adolescents ("M" age = 12.89) who completed a battery of self-report measures. The small correlation found between…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Bullying
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Walters, Glenn D.; Ruscio, John – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Meehl's taxometric method has been shown to differentiate between categorical and dimensional data, but there are many ways to implement taxometric procedures. When analyzing the ordered categorical data typically provided by assessment instruments, summing items to form input indicators has been a popular practice for more than 20 years. A Monte…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
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Walters, Glenn D.; Diamond, Pamela M.; Magaletta, Philip R.; Geyer, Matthew D.; Duncan, Scott A. – Assessment, 2007
The Antisocial Features (ANT) scale of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was subjected to taxometric analysis in a group of 2,135 federal prison inmates. Scores on the three ANT subscales--Antisocial Behaviors (ANT-A), Egocentricity (ANT-E), and Stimulus Seeking (ANT-S)--served as indicators in this study and were evaluated using the…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Personality Assessment, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
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Harris, George; Kirk, Nancy A. – Journal of Offender Counseling, 1985
Suggests that narcissistic, borderline, and antisocial personality disorders are not discrete diagnostic categories, but that they lie along a continuum and have in common the dimensions of degree of self-centeredness and degree of differentiation. Presents evidence supporting existence of continuum of behavior rather than discrete diagnostic…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Classification, Criminals, Institutionalized Persons