Exploring Differences in Youth and Parent Reports of Antisociality among Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Offenders

Autor/inn/en	Skilling, Tracey A.; Doiron, James M.; Seto, Michael C.
Titel	Exploring Differences in Youth and Parent Reports of Antisociality among Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Offenders
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 23 (2011) 1, S.153-163 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
DOI	10.1037/a0021229
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Behavior Problems; Antisocial Behavior; Parent Attitudes; Sexual Abuse; Measures (Individuals); Sons; Conceptual Tempo; Family Relationship; Crime; Criminals; Adolescent Attitudes; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Elternverhalten; Sexueller Missbrauch; Messdaten; Son; Sohn; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Straftäter
Abstract	This study examined the extent of, and explored several possible explanations for, the discrepancies found between adolescent and parent reports of conduct problems in adolescent sexual and nonsexual offenders. We found that adolescent sexual offenders scored lower on measures of conduct problems than did nonsexual offenders, whether on the basis of adolescent or parent report, though the difference was much larger for parent reports. Examining this discrepancy more closely, we found that parents of sexual offenders reported less antisocial behavior than did their sons, whereas parents of nonsexual offenders reported more antisocial behavior than did their sons. The same pattern of results was obtained for reports on impulsivity, but much less so with respect to antisocial personality traits such as narcissism and callousness. Measures of family functioning were generally not related to these parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of conduct problems, but these discrepancies were positively correlated with parental reports of stress. The implications of these findings for the interpretation of research on adolescent sexual offenders and comparisons of sexual and nonsexual offenders are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10