Ebrahimi Ali, Elhami Athar Mojtaba, Darvishi Mona, Colins Olivier F
Student Research Committee, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 2;12:760531. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.760531. eCollection 2021.
The self-report version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a commonly used tool for assessing psychopathic traits in youth. This is the first study designed to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Persian APSD-SR in a sample of 675 school-attending youth in Iran (46% girls; M age = 16.35). Confirmatory factor analysis supported a modified three-factor model, with items loading on narcissism, callous-unemotional, and impulsivity dimensions, which was invariant across gender. Notwithstanding that the internal consistency of some APSD scores was unsatisfactory, the APSD total and dimension scores showed the expected relations with external correlates (e.g., conduct problems, aggression, and low prosocial behavior), supporting the validity of the interpretation of the APSD scores. The findings showed that the APSD is a useful tool for assessing psychopathic traits in Iranian adolescents and may spark research on adolescent psychopathy in mental health and forensic settings.
反社会过程筛查工具（APSD）的自陈版本是评估青少年心理病态特质的常用工具。本研究首次旨在检验波斯语版APSD-SR在伊朗675名在校青少年样本（46%为女孩；平均年龄=16.35岁）中的因子结构、内部一致性和收敛效度。验证性因子分析支持一个修正的三因子模型，各项目分别加载在自恋、冷酷无情和冲动维度上，且该模型在性别上具有不变性。尽管某些APSD分数的内部一致性不尽人意，但APSD总分及维度分数与外部相关因素（如品行问题、攻击性和低亲社会行为）呈现出预期的关系，支持了对APSD分数解释的有效性。研究结果表明，APSD是评估伊朗青少年心理病态特质的有用工具，可能会引发心理健康和法医环境中青少年心理病态的研究。
