Author, as appears in the article.: Morales-Vives F, Cosi S, Lorenzo-Seva U, Vigil-Colet A

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: COSI MUÑOZ, ALEXANDRA / Lorenzo Seva, Urbano / Morales Vives, Fàbia / Vigil Colet, Andrés

Keywords: Response biases Psychopathy Callous-unemotional traits Antisocial behavior Adolescence psychopathy callous-unemotional traits antisocial behavior adolescence

Abstract: Callous-unemotional traits are defined as potential markers of psychopathy in children and adolescents. Previous studies with the most widely used instrument designed specifically to assess these traits, the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU), have shown major methodological problems. For this reason, the purpose of the present study was to develop a valid and reliable test to assess callous-unemotional traits for the adolescent population free of the response biases social desirability (SD) and acquiescence (AC). In order to obtain responses free of these biases, we used SD item markers as well as content balanced items to identify a factor related to SD and AC, so that SD and AC effects can be removed from the individual scores on content factors. As well as the CU traits (unemotional, callousness, and uncaring scales), this new questionnaire also contains an additional scale for assessing antisocial behaviors. The test was administered to 719 adolescents between 13 and 19 years old. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis yielded the following expected four dimensions with a good fit: Unemotional, Callousness, Uncaring, and Antisocial Behavior. These scales also showed good psychometric properties with good reliability, and convergent, discriminant and criterion validity.

Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General psychology Filosofía Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Artes Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 16641078

Author's mail: fabia.morales@urv.cat andreu.vigil@urv.cat urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-2095-0244 0000-0003-3818-4514 0000-0001-5369-3099

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00713/full

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Frontiers In Psychology. 10 (MAR): 713-713

APA: Morales-Vives F, Cosi S, Lorenzo-Seva U, Vigil-Colet A (2019). The INventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Antisocial Behavior (INCA) for Young People: Development and Validation in a Community Sample. Frontiers In Psychology, 10(MAR), 713-713. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00713

Article's DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00713

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2019

Publication Type: Journal Publications