Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2007. Vol. Vol. 19 (nº 2). 269-275
Jorge Sobral, Ángeles Luengo, José A. Gómez-Fraguela, Estrella Romero y Paula Villar
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
En este trabajo se analizan las propiedades psicométricas del Cuestionario de Personalidad Antisocial (Antisocial Personality Questionnaire, APQ) desarrollado por Blackburn y Fawcett (1999) en una muestra de 216 delincuentes (108 hombres y 108 mujeres) sin trastornos clínicos diagnosticados internados en varias cárceles españolas. Además del análisis de las propiedades psicométricas del instrumento, se examinan las diferencias en personalidad relacionadas con el género y el tipo de delito (violentos vs no violentos). Los resultados apoyan la fiabilidad de las escalas, así como la estructura factorial de las escalas propuesta por los autores del instrumento. También seleccionamos aquellos ítems que mejor discriminaban entre delincuentes condenados por delitos violentos y no violentos y realizamos un análisis factorial con ellos, encontrándose una estructura factorial de tres factores que recuerda al modelo de personalidad de Eysenck.
Personality, gender and violent criminality in prison inmates. The Antisocial Personality Questionnaire developed by Blackburn and Fawcett (1999) has shown adequate reliability and validity in studies of male offenders interned in psychiatric hospitals. This paper provides data on the APQ collected from a sample of offenders (males and females) without any diagnosed mental illness. The sample was made up of 216 offenders (108 males and 108 females) confined in Spanish prisons. We analyzed the psychometric properties of the instrument and we also examined differences in personality as a function of gender and type of crime (violent vs. non-violent). Results support the reliability of the APQ scales as well as the structure proposed by Blackburn. Additionally, we selected items that discriminate between offenders convicted for violent and non-violent crimes; when these items are factorized, a three-factor structure emerges, resembling Eysenck= s model.
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