Validity of the Modified Child Psychopathy Scale for Juvenile Justice Center Residents
- Bruno Verschuere,
- Ingrid Candel,
- Lique Van Reenen,
- Andries Korebrits
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Abstract
Adult psychopathy has proven to be an important clinical and forensic construct, but much less is known about juvenile psychopathy. In the present study, we examined the construct validity of the self report modified Child Psychopathy Scale mCPS; Lynam (Psychological Bulletin 120:(2), 209–234, 1997) in a sample of 57 adolescents residing in a Dutch juvenile justice center, aged between 13 and 22 years. The mCPS total score was reliably related to high externalizing problems, low empathy, high anger and aggression, high impulsivity, high (violent) delinquency, and high alcohol/drug use. Unique relations were found for the antisocial-impulsive (mCPS Factor 2), but not the callous-unemotional facet of psychopathy (mCPS Factor 1). Our findings support the validity of the mCPS in that it encompasses the antisocial-impulsive facet of psychopathy, but it is less clear whether the mCPS sufficiently captures the affective-interpersonal facet of psychopathy.
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- Title
- Validity of the Modified Child Psychopathy Scale for Juvenile Justice Center Residents
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
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Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Volume 34, Issue 2 , pp 244-252
- Cover Date
- 2012-06-01
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10862-011-9272-3
- Print ISSN
- 0882-2689
- Online ISSN
- 1573-3505
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
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- Psychopathy
- Child psychopathy scale
- Antisocial
- Impulsivity
- Aggression
- Authors
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Bruno Verschuere
(1)
(2)
(3)
- Ingrid Candel (3) (4)
- Lique Van Reenen (4)
- Andries Korebrits (4) (5) (6)
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Bruno Verschuere
- Author Affiliations
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- 1. Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018, WB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2. Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- 3. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- 4. St. Joseph Foundation, Cadier en Keer, The Netherlands
- 5. Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 6. Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands