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Taylor, John L.; Novaco, Raymond W. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Personality disorder is prevalent among offenders with intellectual disabilities (ID), and it is associated with their risk for violence and recurrent offending behaviour. A new staff-rated instrument, the Personality Disorder Characteristics Checklist (PDCC), designed to screen for ICD-10 dissocial and emotionally unstable personality…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Personality Assessment, Mental Retardation, Construct Validity
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Shaffer, John W.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Compared factor analyses of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168 (MMPI) with the MMPI full length version using a sample of male drug addicts. Found the two versions comparable. Factor structures were highly similar for Blacks and Whites, although significant mean differences on many scales suggested greater psychopathology among…
Descriptors: Adults, Drug Addiction, Factor Structure, Males
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Zolondek, Stacey; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Fowler, Katherine A. – Assessment, 2006
The authors examined the construct and incremental validity of the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy (IM-P), a relatively new instrument designed to detect interpersonal behaviors associated with psychopathy. Observers of videotaped Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) interviews rated male prisoners (N = 93) on the IM-P. The IM-P correlated…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Construct Validity, Interviews, Males