Factor structure of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version in mentally disordered offenders

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Vitacco ◽  
Mitchell H. Ziemke ◽  
Gina Olson ◽  
Laura Yahr ◽  
Bjorn Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist

scholarly journals Violence risk prediction

2000 ◽  
Vol 177 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dolan ◽  
M. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Prediction ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Violent Recidivism ◽  
Recent Developments

BackgroundViolence risk prediction is a priority issue for clinicians working with mentally disordered offenders.AimsTo review the current status of violence risk prediction research.MethodLiterature search (Medline). Key words: violence, risk prediction, mental disorder.ResultsSystematic/structured risk assessment approaches may enhance the accuracy of clinical prediction of violent outcomes. Data on the predictive validity of available clinical risk assessment tools are based largely on American and North American studies and further validation is required in British samples. The Psychopathy Checklist appears to be a key predictor of violent recidivism in a variety of settings.ConclusionsViolence risk prediction is an inexact science and as such will continue to provoke debate. Clinicians clearly need to be able to demonstrate the rationale behind their decisions on violence risk and much can be learned from recent developments in research on violence risk prediction.

A Comparison of Factor Models on the PCL-R With Mentally Disordered Offenders

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 526-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Vitacco ◽  
Richard Rogers ◽  
Craig S. Neumann ◽  
Kimberly S. Harrison ◽  
Gina Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Three Factor

For more than a decade, researchers and practitioners have generally accepted a two-factor model for the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) composed of core personality features and an antisocial lifestyle. Very recently, Cooke and Michie (2001) proposed a three-factor solution that divided the core personality features into two dimensions while eliminating antisocial behavior. This study of male, mentally disordered offenders ( N = 96) directly compared factor models via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). When using testlets to combine theoretically similar items into single ratings, the nested three-factor model was an excellent fit. Of importance, the development of a four-factor model with the inclusion of antisocial items also produced an excellent fit. Combined with recent research, these findings have important ramifications for the construct validity of the PCL-R.

Mentally disordered offenders: A national survey of patients and facilities.

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Steadman ◽  
John Monahan ◽  
Eliot Hartstone ◽  
Sharon Kantorowski Davis ◽  
Pamela Clark Robbins
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered

The Antisocial Personality Questionnaire: An Inventory for Assessing Personality Deviation in Offender Populations1 * An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Fifth European Conference on Law and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary, August 1995.

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Blackburn ◽  
Diane Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Criminal Career ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered

Summary: The development is described of the Antisocial Personality Questionnaire (APQ), a short multitrait, self-report inventory that measures intrapersonal and interpersonal dispositions of relevance to antisocial populations. Scales were generated through factor analysis of an item pool adapted from the MMPI, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, and a self-report scale of Psychopathy, using samples of male mentally disordered offenders (N = 499) and male volunteer nonoffenders (N = 238). Eight factors extracted were identified as Self-Control, Self-Esteem, Avoidance, Paranoid Suspicion, Resentment, Aggression, Deviance, and Extraversion. Short scales constructed to measure these have satisfactory reliability (α), and correlations with measures of personality disorder, observer ratings of interpersonal style, and criminal career data support their construct validity. Scale intercorrelations yield two higher-order dimensions of hostile impulsivity and social withdrawal that reflect orientations towards others and the self, respectively. The APQ provides comprehensive coverage of the deviant traits implicated in personality disorder and antisocial behavior, and appears to tap three of the Big Five personality dimensions (Neuroticism, Extraversion and Agreeableness). The questionnaire has satisfactory psychometric properties and can aid research and intervention with offenders.

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