title: Incremental and Predictive Validity of the Antisocial Process Screening Device in a Community Sample of Male and Female Ethnic Minority and Caucasian Youth.
abstract: The Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a well-supported tool for assessing psychopathic features in youth. However, most research with the APSD has been derived from clinical and forensic samples comprised mainly of male Caucasian and African American adolescents. In this prospective study, the incremental and predictive validity of the self-report APSD for violent and non-violent offending was examined in an ethnically diverse community sample of male and female youth (N = 335) aged 12 to 14. High-school students from a moderate sized city in Western Canada completed the self-report APSD and then completed the Self-Report of Offending 6 months later. Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis indicated that APSD total and subscale scores were predictive of violent and non-violent offending at 6-month follow-up with moderate to large effect sizes. In addition, total scores on the APSD added incremental predictive utility above and beyond traditional criminogenic predictors of youth offending (i.e., prior offending, delinquent peer affiliation, poor school achievement, substance use, low parental monitoring). Although sex differences emerged in the predictive utility of the Impulsivity subscale of the APSD vis-à-vis violent offending, sex did not moderate the relationship between APSD total, Narcissism, or Callous/Unemotional scores and offending. In addition, the predictive utility of the APSD did not vary as a function of the youth's ethnic background. These findings suggest that: (1) the self-report APSD may have utility for risk or threat assessment with normative school populations, (2) APSD findings from higher risk samples generalize to a lower risk sample of high-school youth, and (3) predictive utility of APSD total scores do not differ across male and female Caucasian and ethnic minority youth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada. cshaffer@sfu.ca.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shaffer
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: Dylan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gatner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: Andrew L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.|Applied Criminology, Mid Sweden University, Holmgatan 10, 851 70, Sundsvall, SE, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kevin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: Jodi L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Viljoen
authors.affiliation: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 12666 72 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3M 2M8, USA.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tweed
authors.affiliation: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 12666 72 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3M 2M8, USA.
authors.forename: Gira
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bhatt
authors.affiliation: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 12666 72 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3M 2M8, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dooley
authors.affiliation: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 12666 72 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3M 2M8, USA.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gagnon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Antisocial process screening device; Ethnicity; Offending; Sex differences; Youth psychopathy
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