Assessment of psychopathy in Austria: Psychometric properties of the psychopathy checklist-revised

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 243-250

  Mokros, Andreas ^a   Habermeyer, Elmar ^a   Neumann, Craig S ^b   Schilling, Frank ^c   Hare, Robert D ^d   Eher, Reinhard ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forensic; Measurement invariance; PCL R; Psychopathy; Sex offender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909646358     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: 21512426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000177     Document Type: Article

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