Pechorro Pedro, Moreira Katinea, Basto-Pereira Miguel, Oliveira João Pedro, Ray James V
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisboa, Portugal.
Violence Vict. 2019 Feb 1;34(1):120-135. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.34.1.120.
Juvenile delinquency is a universal problem, with serious personal, economic, and social consequences that span national boundaries. Thus, cross-culturally valid and reliable measures of delinquency are critical to providing a better understanding of the causes, correlates, and outcomes of delinquency. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the self-report delinquency measure items created for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). A sample ( = 412) of male ( = 200) and female ( = 212) at-risk for delinquency youths agreed to participate in the present study. The measure demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties, namely in terms of its two-factor structure (violent and nonviolent delinquency), internal consistency, convergent validity, discriminant validity, criterion-related validity, and known-groups validity. Findings suggest the Add Health Self-Report Delinquency (AHSRD) is an interculturally valid and reliable measure of violent and nonviolent delinquency among at-risk male and female youths.
青少年犯罪是一个全球性问题，会带来严重的个人、经济和社会后果，且跨越国界。因此，具有跨文化效度和信度的犯罪衡量标准对于更好地理解犯罪的成因、相关因素及后果至关重要。本研究的主要目的是检验为青少年健康全国纵向研究（Add Health）创建的自我报告犯罪衡量项目葡萄牙语版本的心理测量特性。一个由有犯罪风险的青少年组成的样本（n = 412），其中男性（n = 200）和女性（n = 212）同意参与本研究。该衡量标准显示出令人满意的心理测量特性，即在其双因素结构（暴力犯罪和非暴力犯罪）、内部一致性、聚合效度、区分效度、标准关联效度和已知群体效度方面。研究结果表明，Add Health自我报告犯罪量表（AHSRD）是一种在跨文化中有效且可靠的衡量有犯罪风险的男性和女性青少年暴力犯罪和非暴力犯罪的工具。
