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A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Antisocial Process Screening Device
by Meng-Cheng Wang, Jiaxin Deng, Xintong Zhang, Jinghui Liang and Yiyun Shou
Behav. Sci. 2025, 15(7), 860; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15070860 - 25 Jun 2025
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Although the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing psychopathic traits, the reliability estimates of the APSD show great heterogeneity across different studies. This investigation evaluated the reliability of the APSD using a reliability generalization [...] Read more.
Although the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing psychopathic traits, the reliability estimates of the APSD show great heterogeneity across different studies. This investigation evaluated the reliability of the APSD using a reliability generalization meta-analytic technique across 158 studies (N = 75,749). The APSD demonstrated marginal to acceptable coefficient alphas ranging from 0.62 (for the Callous–Unemotional subscale) to 0.79 (for the total scale). Further moderation analysis revealed that the differences in administration formats significantly explained the variance of coefficient alphas for the APSD total and subscales, and the self-report version of the APSD manifested poorer coefficient alphas than other-report versions. The standard deviation of scale scores also partly accounted for the variance of the coefficient alphas. Overall, the APSD was found to be a reliable, practical measurement of psychopathic traits in youth, which can be widely applied in various study settings. Nevertheless, we recommend that parent- and teacher-report versions of the APSD as the preferred administering format of the measure when used for children and juveniles, while the self-report version of the APSD is recommended with caution when assessing youth psychopathy, unless multiple-assess methods are used. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
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The Development and Validation of the Antisocial Preferences Scale
by Bartłomiej Skowroński
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2366; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032366 - 29 Jan 2023
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The aim of this study was to create a new instrument measuring antisocial preferences based on the Theory of Social Derailment of Czesław Czapów, who indicated the role of antisocial preferences in predicting antisocial behavior. The measures used were the Antisocial Preferences Scale [...] Read more.
The aim of this study was to create a new instrument measuring antisocial preferences based on the Theory of Social Derailment of Czesław Czapów, who indicated the role of antisocial preferences in predicting antisocial behavior. The measures used were the Antisocial Preferences Scale (APS), BPAQ, Mach-IV, and IVE questionnaires. The participants were 718 prisoners. CFA techniques were used to investigate the construct validity of the Antisocial Preferences Scale. Four alternative models of the APS were specified and tested, namely: one-factor, second-order, multi-factor, and bi-factor. CFA analyses revealed that the best-fitting model was the bifactor. This conceptualization contains seven subscales, namely: aggressiveness, lack of guilt or remorse, breaking legal norms, incapacity for mutually intimate relationships, impulsiveness, risk-taking, and egocentrism. Full article
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