Yang Wendeng, Zhang Xintong, Wang Meng-Cheng, Zhong Chuxian, Luo Jie, Gao Yu
Department of Psychology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
The Key Laboratory for Juveniles Mental Health and Educational Neuroscience in Guangdong Province, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2019 Aug 7;10:1831. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01831. eCollection 2019.
The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) was designed to assess psychopathic traits in adolescents. However, there exists limited evidence for the factor structure and psychometric properties of the YPI when used with Chinese detained juveniles. The present study aimed to examine the factor structure and construct validity of the YPI and its shortened version (YPI-S) in a sample of 607 Chinese 14- to 22-year-old detained boys ( = 17.15, = 1.09). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed a bifactor model which best fit the data at the subscale level for the YPI, and at the item level for the YPI-S. The internal consistency of the YPI and YPI-S scores ranged from marginal to good. Both the YPI and YPI-S total and factor scores correlated positively with the APSD, an alternative psychopathic measure, as well as with proactive and reactive aggression, and correlated negatively with affective and cognitive empathy. Overall, the YPI and YPI-S are shown to be practical and valid assessment tools to measure psychopathic traits in Chinese detained youths.
青少年精神病态特质量表（YPI）旨在评估青少年的精神病态特质。然而，当该量表用于中国被拘留青少年时，其因素结构和心理测量特性的证据有限。本研究旨在检验YPI及其简版（YPI-S）在607名14至22岁中国被拘留男孩样本（均值 = 17.15，标准差 = 1.09）中的因素结构和结构效度。验证性因素分析显示，双因素模型最适合YPI子量表水平和YPI-S项目水平的数据。YPI和YPI-S得分的内部一致性从边缘到良好不等。YPI和YPI-S的总分及因素得分均与另一种精神病态测量工具APSD呈正相关，也与主动性和反应性攻击呈正相关，与情感和认知共情呈负相关。总体而言，YPI和YPI-S被证明是测量中国被拘留青少年精神病态特质的实用且有效的评估工具。
