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Detecting inconsistent responding on the youth psychopathic traits inventory – short form

Detecting inconsistent responding on the youth psychopathic traits inventory – short form
Detecting inconsistent responding on the youth psychopathic traits inventory – short form
The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory – Short Form (YPI-S; van Baardewijk, 2010) is a convenient measure for assessing psychopathy in settings with constraints on resources. However, the YPI-S does not contain a means of detecting careless or random response styles. The present study describes the development and evaluation of an inconsistent responding scale for the YPI-S using five archival samples that vary in language (English, German, Italian, Dutch) and other participant characteristics (juvenile offenders, adolescent students). Inconsistency scores resulting from the new scale effectively distinguished genuine participant responses from randomly generated cases (AUCs = .85 - .90) and from cases in which 50% of original responses were replaced with random data (AUCs = .75 - .82). The associations between the YPI-S and theoretically relevant correlates were reduced among participants exceeding proposed cut-off scores for profile validity compared with associations among more consistent respondents.
1073-1911
Kelley, Shannon
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Fossati, Andrea
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Kelley, Shannon, Edens, John, Donnellan, M. Brent, Somma, Antonella, Fossati, Andrea, de Ruiter, Corinne, Eisenbarth, Hedwig and Vaughn, Michael (2017) Detecting inconsistent responding on the youth psychopathic traits inventory – short form. Assessment. (doi:10.1177/1073191117738048).

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The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory – Short Form (YPI-S; van Baardewijk, 2010) is a convenient measure for assessing psychopathy in settings with constraints on resources. However, the YPI-S does not contain a means of detecting careless or random response styles. The present study describes the development and evaluation of an inconsistent responding scale for the YPI-S using five archival samples that vary in language (English, German, Italian, Dutch) and other participant characteristics (juvenile offenders, adolescent students). Inconsistency scores resulting from the new scale effectively distinguished genuine participant responses from randomly generated cases (AUCs = .85 - .90) and from cases in which 50% of original responses were replaced with random data (AUCs = .75 - .82). The associations between the YPI-S and theoretically relevant correlates were reduced among participants exceeding proposed cut-off scores for profile validity compared with associations among more consistent respondents.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 September 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 October 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 414727
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414727
ISSN: 1073-1911
PURE UUID: 9ac5bbca-0e96-487e-8df0-fc9fef842551
ORCID for Hedwig Eisenbarth: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-2630

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Date deposited: 09 Oct 2017 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:47

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Author: Shannon Kelley
Author: John Edens
Author: M. Brent Donnellan
Author: Antonella Somma
Author: Andrea Fossati
Author: Corinne de Ruiter
Author: Hedwig Eisenbarth ORCID iD
Author: Michael Vaughn

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