title: Using the Karolinska Scales of Personality on male juvenile delinquents: relationships between scales and factor structure.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate relationships between scales from the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) and the factor structure of the KSP in a sample of male juvenile delinquents. The KSP was administered to a group of male juvenile delinquents (n=55, mean age 17 years; standard deviation=1.2) from four Swedish national correctional institutions for serious offenders. As expected, the KSP showed appropriate correlations between the scales. Factor analysis (maximum likelihood) arrived at a four-factor solution in this sample, which is in line with previous research performed in a non-clinical sample of Swedish males. More research is needed in a somewhat larger sample of juvenile delinquents in order to confirm the present results regarding the factor solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. amd@psychology.su.se
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dåderman
authors.forename: Ake
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hellström
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wennberg
authors.forename: Bertil
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Törestad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires