Are Self-Report Measures of Adaptive Functioning Appropriate for those High in Psychopathic Traits?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-709

  Young Lundquist, Bethany A ^a   Boccaccini, Marcus T ^a   Simpler, Amber ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MALINGERING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870667744     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2039     Document Type: Article

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