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- Title
Validación de la Lista de Chequeo de Psicopatía-Revisada (PCL-R) en población carcelaria masculina de Colombia.
- Authors
Valencia, Jenny García; Viana, Juan Carlos Arango; Rico, Oscar Correa; González, Andrés Felipe Pérez; Agudelo, Víctor Hugo; Mosquera, Carlos Andrés Mejía; Casals, Sergi; Calle, Gabriel Jaime López; López, Juan David Patiño; Acosta, Carlos Alberto Palacio
- Abstract
Introduction: Psychopathy is characterized by a pattern of constant affective deficit and lack of respect for other people's rights and social norms. The Psychopathy Check-List Revised (PCL-R) is an instrument of measurement composed of 20 items and it is one of the most used in psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder research. Objective: To validate the PCL-R in Colombian male inmates. Methods: Two translations into Spanish and two back-translations for each of the items were done. The instruction manual was also translated into Spanish and back-translated. Face validity was assessed by a group of experts. Content validity was examined as well as internal consistency, test-retest and inter-rater reproducibility. Results: In the factor analysis for the content validity, four domains were found which explained 61.1% of the variance. The internal consistency was high (Cronbach's Alpha=0.94). Similarly, the test-retest and inter-rater reproducibility were ICC=0.83, 95% CI: 0.68-0.91 and ICC=0.83, 95% CI: 0.86-0.96, respectively. Conclusions: The Spanish version of the PCL-R for Colombian male jail inmates shows good psychometric properties.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; PSYCHOPATHY; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; SOCIAL norms; ANTISOCIAL personality disorders; DELINQUENT behavior; SOCIAL control; PSYCHOMETRICS; FACTOR analysis; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatria, 2008, Vol 37, p564
- ISSN
0034-7450
- Publication type
Article