Assessment of psychopathy in a population of incarcerated adolescent offenders
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The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is reliably used in the subgrouping of incarcerated adult offenders, white and male. A modified version of the PCL-R was used for a group of incarcerated black and white male adolescent offenders, based on file information only. It showed high interrater reliability and internal consistency, but no significant racial differences were found in the scoring, thus making it applicable to both black and white adolescent male offender.
Publication Name: Psychological Assessment
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1040-3590
Year: 1997
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Profiles of the alcohol use inventory: correction to Rychtarik, Koutsky and Miller, 1998
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Cluster analyses were used in Rychtarik, Koutsky and Miller (1998) for analysing primary, or nonmarital, Alcohol Use Inventory (AUI) subscales. A recode error has been discovered since the work was published. This error lies in the way the AUI SUSTAIND subscale was calculated. There was a significant different in the number of clusters after the correction had been made, though there was a similarity in the profiles identified in the corrected and original reports.
Publication Name: Psychological Assessment
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1040-3590
Year: 1999
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Using latent trait modeling to conceptualize an alcohol problems continuum
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Latent trait modeling (LTM) methods are applied to alcohol problems on 110 problems reported during in-person interviews of 1348 middle-aged men from the general population. The results revealed a continuum of severity linking the 110 problems, ranging from heavy and abusive drinking, through tolerance and withdrawal, to serious complications of alcoholism.
Publication Name: Psychological Assessment
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1040-3590
Year: 2004
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