Vitacco Michael J, Neumann Craig S, Caldwell Michael F, Leistico Anne-Marie, Van Rybroek Gregory J
Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin 53704, USA.
J Pers Assess. 2006 Aug;87(1):74-83. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8701_06.
Although there is a documented link between psychopathy and instrumental violence in adult offenders, the association between these constructs has not garnered significant attention in adolescent offenders. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between psychopathy and instrumental aggression in a sample of 122 male adolescents incarcerated in a state facility for serious and chronic offenders. We evaluated the primary (2-, 3-, and 4-factor) models of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth, Kosson, & Hare, 2003) and assessed their relationship to a separate 5-item measure of instrumental violence. CFA revealed good model fit for the 3- and 4-factor latent variable models of adolescent psychopathy and a single-factor model reflecting a 5-item measure of instrumental violence. Structural equation modeling results indicate that the 4-factor model accounted for 20% of the variance for instrumental violence. In contrast, the 3-factor model of the PCL:YV accounted for 8%, and the 2-factor model accounted for 5% of the variance associated with instrumental violence.
尽管在成年罪犯中，精神病态与工具性暴力之间的联系已有文献记载，但在青少年罪犯中，这些概念之间的关联并未得到显著关注。在本研究中，我们评估了122名被关押在一所针对严重和惯犯的州立机构中的男性青少年样本中，精神病态与工具性攻击之间的关系。我们评估了《精神病态量表：青少年版》（PCL:YV；福特、科索恩和黑尔，2003年）的主要（二因素、三因素和四因素）模型，并评估了它们与一项单独的5项工具性暴力测量指标之间的关系。验证性因素分析显示，青少年精神病态的三因素和四因素潜在变量模型以及反映5项工具性暴力测量指标的单因素模型具有良好的模型拟合度。结构方程建模结果表明，四因素模型解释了工具性暴力方差的20%。相比之下，PCL:YV的三因素模型解释了8%，二因素模型解释了与工具性暴力相关方差的5%。
