Psychopathy in iran: A cross-cultural study

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 676-691

  Shariat, Seyed Vahid ^a   Assadi, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Noroozian, Maryam ^a   Pakravannejad, Mahdi ^a   Yahyazadeh, Omid ^a   Aghayan, Shahrokh ^a   Michie, Christine ^b   Cooke, David ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIOLENCE; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 77958577820     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 0885579X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2010.24.5.676     Document Type: Article

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