Inventário de Psicopatia de Hare Versão Jovens (PCL:YV): Estudo Preliminar em Amostra Adolescente Brasileira

• Main Authors: Ramiro Ronchetti, Tárcia Rita Davoglio, Roberta Salvador Silva, Silvio José Lemos Vasconcellos, Gabriel José Chittó Gauer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Florida 2010-01-01
• Series: Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28420658017

This paper presents the preliminary study of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) reliability developed with 20 male Brazilian adolescents offenders. They had between 16 and 17 years old medium age and were confined in a facility in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, the southernmost state capital in the country. A questionnaire with social and demographic data and a semi-structured interview were filled out. Collateral information was also obtained with the monitors of the facility where the research was performed. The results showed a high index of inter-evaluator reliability (W=0.93; p <0.001) in this sample. These findings suggest the continuation of the studies in order of generalizing the findings as well as to give continuity to the process of instrument validation in the Brazilian context.