title: Adjectival descriptors for antisocial personality trait in Chinese university students.
abstract: Investigators used the lexical approach in which Chinese dictionaries were used to identify 48 adjectives representing antisocial personality traits. These were used to construct ratings scales which were administered to 301 university students in different geographical regions of China. Factor analysis yielded three factors labeled Intolerant, Assaulting, and Fierce and Malicious. The 10 adjectives with highest loadings for each factor were used to develop a short inventory, the Chinese Adjectival Descriptors for Antisocial Personality Trait. The inventory was administered to 448 undergraduate students in the four areas of China. Again a three factor structure was obtained. The internal reliabilities of the three were .85, .81, and .81 for Fierce and Malicious, Assaulting, and Intolerant, respectively. Men scored significantly higher than women on Fierce and Malicious and Assaulting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
authors.forename: Rongrong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Shaohua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yuhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Mowei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Dengfeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult