Psychopathy Checklist Youth Version (PCL-YV) - Collateral Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat_baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL-YV; Forth, Kosson, & Hare, 2003) assesses psychopathic characteristics among youth. Procedures advocated by the authors suggest a 60-90 minute, semi-structured interview to assess the youth's interpersonal style, obtain information on a variety of aspects of his/her history and current functioning, and assess the credibility of his/her statements. However, the Pathways study was unable to accommodate an interview of this length to assess psychopathy. Instead, all questions from the PCL-YV interview guide were incorporated into the Pathways subject baseline interview battery as well as the collateral interview battery. Information from these interviews was used to generate a report which combined the PCL-related answers from both the subject and collateral interview. With this information in hand, as well as information from court records, the interviewer completed the PCL-YV rating form.
The PCL scores are provided in the subject database. Here, we provide just two individual items that were part of the collateral interview. These two items were used (among others) to score the PCL but we provide them to researchers due to their independent utility as indicators of risk.
- Has the subject ever hurt an animal on purpose [C0_PCL060]
- Is the subject a bully or does he/she ever threaten other people [C0_PCL061]
References
- Forth, A., Kosson, D., & Hare, R. (2003). The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, Technical Manual. Multi-Health Systems, Inc. New York.
- Jones, S., Cauffman, E., Miller, J. & Mulvey, E. (2006). Investigating different factor structures of the Psychopathy Checklist-Youth Version. Confirmatory factor analytic findings. Psychological Assessment, 18, 33-48.
- Cooke, David J.; Michie, Christine (2001). Refining the construct of psychopath: Towards a hierarchical model. Psychological Assessment, 13(2), 171-188.