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PCL-R Disparity PDF
PCL-R Disparity PDF
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NZ Psych Conference – Aug/Sept 2003
The Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-
R: Hare, 1991, 2003) provides three scores
to be used in the assessment and diagnosis
of psychopathy as well for actuarial-
predictive risk applications:
a Factor 1 “interpersonal variables” score
a Factor 2 “social deviance” score
a Total score formed from the sum of all
20 items comprising the PCL-R.
NZ Psych Conference – Aug/Sept 2003
It consists of 20 cognitive-behavioural
constructs or items, each assigned a 0, 1, 2
rating indicating the degree to which an
individual matches the description of the
item in the test manual. A 0 rating
indicates that the item does not apply to
the individual. A rating of 1 indicates a
partial application, with 2 indicating that
an item definitely applies to an
individual.
NZ Psych Conference – Aug/Sept 2003
The sum score across all 20 items yields
the total PCL_R score (0-40). Two other
scores are normally computed, the Factor
1 and 2 scores (F1 & F2) which are the
summed scores respectively for the
particular items …
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0.699
Factor 1 Factor 2
0.710 0.691
where:
Norm_1 and Norm_2 are random normally
distributed sets of continuous-valued “scores”
r is the desired correlation between Norm_1 &
New_Norm_2 (0.54*) *allowing for integer mapping & scaling constraint
attenuation which will bring the correlation back to 0.5
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