Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Psychol Assess. 2012 Sep;24(3):738-50. doi: 10.1037/a0026791. Epub 2012 Jan 16.
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 24(3) of Psychological Assessment (see record 2012-04601-001). The article contained a number of errors which are corrected in the erratum.] Despite general consensus over the value of measuring self-reported offending, discrepancies exist in methods of scoring self-reported offending and the length of the reference period over which offending is assessed. This analysis compared the concurrent interassociations and longitudinal predictive strength of diversity, frequency, and severity offending scores measured over the past 6 months and diversity and severity scores measured "ever" between assessments. For violent offending, different scorings were highly correlated and equally predictive of adulthood offending. For nonviolent offending, there was significant continuity in diversity and severity-weighted diversity scores over the transition to adulthood but not in nonviolent frequency or severity-weighted frequency scores. Results support the use of offending diversity scores rather than offending frequency scores and highlight the importance of examining nonviolent and violent offending as separate constructs.
[勘误通知：本文的勘误报告已在《心理评估》第 24 卷（3）中报道（见记录 2012-04601-001）。文章中存在一些错误，在勘误中进行了纠正。]尽管人们普遍认为衡量自我报告的犯罪行为具有价值，但在评分自我报告的犯罪行为的方法以及评估犯罪行为的参考期长度方面存在差异。本分析比较了过去 6 个月内测量的多样性、频率和严重程度犯罪得分，以及评估之间“曾经”测量的多样性和严重程度得分的同期相互关联和纵向预测强度。对于暴力犯罪，不同的评分高度相关，对成年犯罪具有同等的预测力。对于非暴力犯罪，在向成年期过渡时，多样性和严重程度加权多样性得分具有显著的连续性，但非暴力频率或严重程度加权频率得分则没有。结果支持使用犯罪多样性得分而不是犯罪频率得分，并强调了将非暴力和暴力犯罪作为单独的构念进行检查的重要性。
