Trajtenberg Nicolás, de Ribera Olga Sánchez, Nivette Amy, León-Mayer Elizabeth, Neumann Craig S
Department of Criminology, University of Manchester. Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Department of Criminology, University of Manchester. Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; Department of Psychology, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Mar-Apr;87:101867. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101867. Epub 2023 Feb 15.
Psychopathy remains a relatively unexplored concept in Latin America. The abbreviated Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP-SF) seems promising in this under-resourced context. However, the SRP-SF should be tested for measurement invariance to achieve meaningful comparison across countries in Latin America. Therefore the aims of this study were to examine the underlying factor structure of the SRP-SF in incarcerated adult male offenders from Uruguay (n = 331) and Chile (n = 208), to examine the measurement invariance of the SRP-SF across countries, and to assess the utility of SRP-SF to classify first time offenders from offenders with criminal history. Findings showed a good fit for the four-factor model in Uruguay, and both Chile and Uruguay showed invariance. Conversely, the Interpersonal and Affective factors were not associated with criminal history in the Uruguayan sample. Therefore, more studies are needed before using the SRP-SF as screening tool to classify first-time offenders and reoffenders in different countries in Latin America.
在拉丁美洲，精神病态仍是一个相对未被充分探索的概念。在资源匮乏的情况下，简版自陈式精神病态量表（SRP-SF）似乎很有前景。然而，SRP-SF应进行测量不变性检验，以便在拉丁美洲各国之间进行有意义的比较。因此，本研究的目的是检验SRP-SF在乌拉圭（n = 331）和智利（n = 208）成年男性在押罪犯中的潜在因素结构，检验SRP-SF在不同国家间的测量不变性，并评估SRP-SF对初犯和有犯罪史罪犯进行分类的效用。研究结果表明，乌拉圭的四因素模型拟合良好，智利和乌拉圭均表现出不变性。相反，在乌拉圭样本中，人际和情感因素与犯罪史无关。因此，在将SRP-SF用作拉丁美洲不同国家初犯和再犯分类的筛查工具之前，还需要更多的研究。
