| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2008-136.13 |
| Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 18/2008
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Title:
| Preliminary results on the psychometric validation of the Portuguese version of the Externalizing Inventory
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| Publication year: | 2013
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URL:
| http://www.ehu.es/gip/publicaciones/congresos/2013/ECPA_donostia_(programa).pdf
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| Contents: | ABSTRACT:
The Externalizing Inventory proposes to evaluate a coherent spectrum of individual differences which involves a disinhibitory tendency ranging from normative personality traits to psychopathology, and including several negative behaviors, such as aggressiveness and impulsivity, substance use or anti-social conduct. Its Portuguese version was evaluated using a sample of 477 male and female higher education students, to ascertain for reliability and construct validity. Most of the subscales of the instrument obtained good internal consistency values and adequate fit indicators for the evaluation of a single factor, using confirmatory factor analysis. They were grouped by exploratory factor analysis into five components: antisocial vulnerability, vulnerability to substance use, vulnerability to impulse control, prossocial attitudes, and depersonalizing tendency. These components are very similar in content to those found for the original and the Brazilian version of the instrument, concurring to the internal structure validity of the Portuguese version. Adequate validity in relation to measures of aggression and risk behaviors was also found. These results provide evidence on the preliminary psychometric qualities of the Portuguese version or the Externalizing Inventory, which may become a useful measure for evaluating clinical, forensic or normative samples and better understand what may constitute a vulnerability to psychopathology.
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| Accessibility: | Document does not exist in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Vagos, P.
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Secondary author(s):
| Santos, I. M., Pereira, A. T., Costa, J., Patrick, C. J., Silva, C. F.
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Document type:
| Abstract book
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Vagos, P., Santos, I. M., Pereira, A. T., Costa, J., Patrick, C. J., & Silva, C. F. (2013). Preliminary results on the psychometric validation of the Portuguese version of the Externalizing Inventory. In I. Alonso-Arbiol & K. Diez (Eds.). 12th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, San Sebastian, Spain: Book of Abstracts (pp. 243-244).
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| Indexed document: | No
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| Keywords: | Externalizing inventory / Psychometry / Portuguese population
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