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- Title
The usefulness of self-reported psychopathy-like traits in the study of antisocial behaviour among non-referred adolescents.
- Authors
Andershed, Henrik; Gustafson, Sigrid B.; Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Håkan
- Abstract
The present study addresses the question of whether it is possible to use a self-report measure of psychopathic traits on non-referred youth samples to identify a subgroup of problematic youths who are particularly problematic and different from other problem youths. A large sample of eighth-grade, non-referred adolescents, and their parents were assessed. Results showed that the adolescents exhibiting a low-socialized psychopathy-like personality constellation had a more frequent, violent, and versatile conduct-problem profile than other low-socialized and well socialized adolescents. The psychopathy-like adolescents also differed from other poorly socialized adolescents in ways that suggested that their etiological background was different from adolescents with non-psychopathy-like conduct problems. We conclude that self-report measures can indeed be useful for research purposes in subtyping youths with conduct problems. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
MENTAL illness; ANTISOCIAL personality disorders; TEENAGERS; ADOLESCENT psychology; PERSONALITY
- Publication
European Journal of Personality, 2002, Vol 16, Issue 5, p383
- ISSN
0890-2070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/per.455