Converging evidence for the latent structure of antisocial personality disorder: Consistency of taxometric and latent class analyses

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 284-293

  Marcus, David K ^a   Ruscio, John ^b   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^c   Hughes, Kathleen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisocial personality disorder; Latent structure; Taxometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 39349099145     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854807311679     Document Type: Article

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