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Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV)

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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

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Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version; PCL:YV; Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version

Definition

An assessment instrument designed for youth ages 12–18 for the assessment of psychopathic traits and behaviors underlying the construct of psychopathy

Introduction

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth et al. 2003) is an assessment instrument designed to assess psychopathic traits and behaviors in youth ages 12–18. It was adapted from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised(PCL-R), a well validated, reliable, and extensively used assessment instrument for assessing psychopathic traits in adults. The purpose of the PCL:YV is to provide a reliable measurement of the psychopathy construct in youth to enable an understanding of early precursors to adult psychopathy, identify potential risk and resilience factors, and promote research that can enable circumvention of problematic behaviors through effective treatment. This entry describes the content and...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Kristopher Brazil & Adelle Forth

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  1. Kristopher Brazil
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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Lakehead University, Orillia, Canada

    Beth A. Visser

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Brazil, K., Forth, A. (2016). Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1102-1

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