Examining relations between psychopathology and psychopathy dimensions among adolescent female and male offenders

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-95

  Sevecke, Kathrin ^a   Lehmkuhl, Gerd ^a   Krischer, Maya K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delinquency; Externalizing; Internalizing behavior; Psychopathology; Psychopathy; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOPATHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GERMANY; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349112174     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-008-0707-7     Document Type: Article

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