Abstract
The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version (YPI-S; van Baardewijk et al., 2010) is a self-report measure to assess
psychopathic-like traits in adolescents. The aim of the present study is to investigate the factor structure, the internal
consistency, and the criterion validity of the YPI-S in 768 Belgian community adolescents (45.4 % males). In general, our
study supported the YPI three factor structure while relevant indices showed that the instrument is internally consistent.
In addition, relations between the YPI-S total score and dimension scores on the one hand and external criterion measures
(e.g. conduct problems and self-reported offending) on the other hand were generally in line with predictions. The present
study replicated and substantially extended previous findings of the YPI-S in a sample of community youth. Future studies
are needed to test whether findings from community samples can be replicated in clinical-referred and justice-involved boys
and adolescents.
psychopathic-like traits in adolescents. The aim of the present study is to investigate the factor structure, the internal
consistency, and the criterion validity of the YPI-S in 768 Belgian community adolescents (45.4 % males). In general, our
study supported the YPI three factor structure while relevant indices showed that the instrument is internally consistent.
In addition, relations between the YPI-S total score and dimension scores on the one hand and external criterion measures
(e.g. conduct problems and self-reported offending) on the other hand were generally in line with predictions. The present
study replicated and substantially extended previous findings of the YPI-S in a sample of community youth. Future studies
are needed to test whether findings from community samples can be replicated in clinical-referred and justice-involved boys
and adolescents.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-11
- DOI 10.1007/s10862-012-9299-0
- Authors
- Olivier F. Colins, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-LUMC/Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Marc Noom, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-LUMC/Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Wouter Vanderplasschen, Department of Special Education, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Journal Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
- Online ISSN 1573-3505
- Print ISSN 0882-2689