School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Darkmind Research Group, Tabriz, Iran.
J Pers Assess. 2023 Jul-Aug;105(4):555-565. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2022.2117046. Epub 2022 Sep 12.
The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) scale was developed to advance the study of child and adolescent psychopathy, especially as it relates to conduct disorder. This study is the first to test the factor structure, measurement invariance, internal consistency, and validity of the Persian PSCD self-report version in a gender-mixed sample of 1,506 school-attending 11 to 18 years old youth ( age = 15.23; = 1.83; 49.60% boys). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the proposed four-factor hierarchical structure of the PSCD, though with 19 items loaded on grandiose-manipulative, callous-unemotional, daring-impulsive, and conduct disorder components. This factor structure was also invariant across gender. The PSCD total and four components scores were internally consistent and exhibited the expected relations with proactive aggression, externalizing problems, anxiety and depression, and poor school performance, supporting the PSCD scores' convergent, discriminant, and criteria validity. The findings indicated that with some modifications, the Persian PSCD might hold promise for assessing psychopathy components in Iranian school-attending adolescents and may spark additional research in a variety of settings.
品行障碍拟议特征量表（PSCD）旨在推进儿童和青少年精神病学的研究，特别是与品行障碍有关的研究。本研究首次在一个性别混合的 1506 名 11 至 18 岁在校青少年（年龄=15.23；SD=1.83；49.60%男孩）样本中测试了波斯语 PSCD 自我报告版本的因子结构、测量不变性、内部一致性和有效性。验证性因子分析支持 PSCD 拟议的四级层次结构，尽管有 19 个项目与夸大-操纵、无情-不敏感、大胆-冲动和品行障碍成分有关。这种因子结构在性别上也是不变的。PSCD 总分和四个分量表的得分具有内部一致性，并表现出与主动性攻击、外化问题、焦虑和抑郁以及学业成绩不佳的预期关系，支持 PSCD 分数的收敛性、区分性和标准有效性。研究结果表明，经过一些修改，波斯语 PSCD 可能有望评估伊朗在校青少年的精神病学成分，并可能在各种环境中引发更多的研究。
