Validity of the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory in a criminal offender sample: Relations with disinhibitory psychopathology, personality, and psychopathic features

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-100

  Venables, Noah C ^a   Patrick, Christopher J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Disinhibition; Externalizing psychopathology; Psychopathy; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRIME; DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISINHIBITORY PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; DSM-IV-TR; EXTERNALIZING SPECTRUM INVENTORY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOPATHY CHECKLIST REVISED; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; ADDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863090426     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024703     Document Type: Article

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