McConkey, Catherine L. (2012) Measurement of Adolescent Psychopathy Adolescent Psychopathy Measures: A Content and Construct Validity study of the Adolescent Antisocial Attitudes Scale, the Antisocial Process Screening Device and the Psychopathy Content Scale in a Community Sample. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Very few studies have compared the item functioning of juvenile psychopathy measures within a non-clinical setting. The present study examined the applicability of items from 3 psychopathy measures, The Adolescent Antisocial Attitudes Scale (AASAS; Czech, S., 2003), the Anti-social Process Screening Device (APSD; Frick, P.J., & Hare, R. D., 2001) and the Psychopathy Content Scale (PCS; Murrie & Cornell, 2000), given to older adolescents from a convenience sample of the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) students and personal contacts. Current measures of adolescent psychopathy are direct downward extensions of adult measures which have been validated in forensic samples (Skeem & Cook, 2012a). Given these forensic samples and the a focus on recidivism of criminal behaviours there is potential that those adolescents experiencing difficulties will be unjustly labeled and subjected to treatment and pejorative disadvantage due to poor reliability and validity of measures. It is therefore important that the measures be tested in non-clinical samples to provide normative data for adolescent behaviours, allowing measures to be designed to assess true psychopathy from transitive development.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Suzanne Czech |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2025 22:53 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2025 22:53 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adolescent psychopathy ; AASAS ; APSD ; PCS ; item analysis |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52550 |
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