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The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation

The self-report version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a commonly used tool for assessing psychopathic traits in youth. This is the first study designed to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Persian APSD-SR in a sample of 675 scho...

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Autores principales: Ebrahimi, Ali, Elhami Athar, Mojtaba, Darvishi, Mona, Colins, Olivier F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.760531
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author Ebrahimi, Ali
Elhami Athar, Mojtaba
Darvishi, Mona
Colins, Olivier F.
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description The self-report version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a commonly used tool for assessing psychopathic traits in youth. This is the first study designed to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Persian APSD-SR in a sample of 675 school-attending youth in Iran (46% girls; M age = 16.35). Confirmatory factor analysis supported a modified three-factor model, with items loading on narcissism, callous-unemotional, and impulsivity dimensions, which was invariant across gender. Notwithstanding that the internal consistency of some APSD scores was unsatisfactory, the APSD total and dimension scores showed the expected relations with external correlates (e.g., conduct problems, aggression, and low prosocial behavior), supporting the validity of the interpretation of the APSD scores. The findings showed that the APSD is a useful tool for assessing psychopathic traits in Iranian adolescents and may spark research on adolescent psychopathy in mental health and forensic settings.
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spelling pubmed-85947562021-11-17 The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation Ebrahimi, Ali Elhami Athar, Mojtaba Darvishi, Mona Colins, Olivier F. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry The self-report version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a commonly used tool for assessing psychopathic traits in youth. This is the first study designed to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Persian APSD-SR in a sample of 675 school-attending youth in Iran (46% girls; M age = 16.35). Confirmatory factor analysis supported a modified three-factor model, with items loading on narcissism, callous-unemotional, and impulsivity dimensions, which was invariant across gender. Notwithstanding that the internal consistency of some APSD scores was unsatisfactory, the APSD total and dimension scores showed the expected relations with external correlates (e.g., conduct problems, aggression, and low prosocial behavior), supporting the validity of the interpretation of the APSD scores. The findings showed that the APSD is a useful tool for assessing psychopathic traits in Iranian adolescents and may spark research on adolescent psychopathy in mental health and forensic settings. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8594756/ /pubmed/34795601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.760531 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ebrahimi, Elhami Athar, Darvishi and Colins. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ebrahimi, Ali
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Darvishi, Mona
Colins, Olivier F.
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title The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation
title_full The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation
title_fullStr The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation
title_full_unstemmed The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation
title_short The Persian Self-Report Version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-P): A Psychometric Evaluation
title_sort persian self-report version of the antisocial process screening device (apsd-p): a psychometric evaluation
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34795601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.760531
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