Análisis de ítems para la evaluación de la conducta antisocial:un estudio transcultural

  1. M. Ángeles Luengo 1
  2. J. M. Otero
  3. Estrella Romero 1
  4. J. Antonio Gómez-Fraguela 1
  5. E. Thomé Tavares-Filho 2
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

  2. 2 Universidad del Amazonas, BRASIL
Journal:
Revista iberoamericana de diagnóstico y evaluación psicológica

ISSN: 1135-3848

Year of publication: 1999

Volume: 1

Issue: 7

Pages: 21-36

Type: Article

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Abstract

For decades, assessment of delinquent behavior has been a highly controversial issue in criminological research. In this sense, self-reports of antisocial behavior have been considered as an useful alternative to official records, because of their capacity to provide direct, precise and real information about delinquency. This work contributes to the proposal of self-report instruments reliable, valid and useful in different sociocultural contexts. We analyze the ítems included in the ABQ ( Antisocial Behavior Questionnaire, created by our research group) and examine in samples from Galicia (Spain) and Manaos (Brasil): 1) the discriminative power of each ítem to establish differences between delinquents and nondelinquents, and 2) their crosscultural validity. As result of these analyses we propose a 60-ítem instrument with satis - factory levels of reliability and useful to assess adolescent antisocial behavior in both coun - tries.

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