Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.
Span J Psychol. 2012 Jul;15(2):724-35. doi: 10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n2.38884.
The aim of this research was to determine to what extent a psychopath screening device (the APSD) is useful in forensic assessments to predict general and violent offending. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study was done and 238 young people serving a sentence were assessed. The gold standard instrument used to measure psychopathy was the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth, Kosson & Hare, 2003). The results indicate that the association found between the screening device scores and several indicators of risk is low if compared with those obtained with the PCL:YV, suggesting that it is less useful as a tool in order to predict offending or violent offences. However, an Area Under the Curve of .784 and a validity index of 62.5 support its use as a screening device or as a preliminary approach to assess psychopathy in this population. The usefulness of this instrument to make assessments with young people in the forensic setting is discussed.
本研究旨在确定心理变态筛查工具（APS）在法医评估中预测一般和暴力犯罪方面的有效程度。为此，进行了一项横断面研究，对 238 名正在服刑的年轻人进行了评估。用于测量心理变态的金标准工具是《青少年心理病理检查表》（PCL：YV；Forth、Kosson 和 Hare，2003 年）。结果表明，与使用 PCL：YV 获得的结果相比，筛查工具分数与几个风险指标之间的关联较低，这表明它作为预测犯罪或暴力犯罪的工具不太有用。然而，曲线下面积为.784 和效度指数为 62.5 支持将其用作筛查工具或初步评估该人群心理变态的方法。本文讨论了该工具在法医环境中对年轻人进行评估的有效性。
