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Self-report versus clinician-ratings in the assessment of aggression in violent offenders
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- Berlin, Johan (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för etik, juridik och mental hälsa,Centre for Ethics, Law, and Mental Health,Enheten för klinisk forskning om utagerande beteenden och utvecklingsrelaterad psykopatologi,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Lund Clinical Research on Externalizing and Developmental psychopathology (LU-CRED),Lund University Research Groups,Sahlgrenska Academy,Regional Forensic Psychiatric Clinic in Växjö
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- Tärnhäll, André (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för etik, juridik och mental hälsa,Institutionen för neurovetenskap och fysiologi,Centre for Ethics, Law, and Mental Health,Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology,Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri,Sektion IV,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Lund,Medicinska fakulteten,Enheten för klinisk forskning om utagerande beteenden och utvecklingsrelaterad psykopatologi,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Section IV,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund,Faculty of Medicine,Lund Clinical Research on Externalizing and Developmental psychopathology (LU-CRED),Lund University Research Groups,Sahlgrenska Academy,Region Skåne
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- Hofvander, Björn (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för etik, juridik och mental hälsa,Centre for Ethics, Law, and Mental Health,Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri,Sektion IV,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Lund,Medicinska fakulteten,Enheten för klinisk forskning om utagerande beteenden och utvecklingsrelaterad psykopatologi,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Section IV,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund,Faculty of Medicine,Lund Clinical Research on Externalizing and Developmental psychopathology (LU-CRED),Lund University Research Groups,Sahlgrenska Academy,Region Skåne
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- Wallinius, Märta, 1981 (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för etik, juridik och mental hälsa,Institutionen för neurovetenskap och fysiologi,Centre for Ethics, Law, and Mental Health,Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology,Enheten för klinisk forskning om utagerande beteenden och utvecklingsrelaterad psykopatologi,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Lund Clinical Research on Externalizing and Developmental psychopathology (LU-CRED),Lund University Research Groups,Sahlgrenska Academy,Regional Forensic Psychiatric Clinic in Växjö
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- 2021-05-24
- 2021
- English.
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In: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. - : Wiley. - 0957-9664 .- 1471-2857. ; 31:3, s. 198-210
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Abstract
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- Background The construct of aggression is central to work with violent offenders, but it is a broad construct that can be assessed by many different methods and instruments. Its measurement may, however, have profound implications for treatment planning. We need more knowledge about how different methods for assessing aggression relate to each other. Aims Our aims were to investigate, first, the convergence and concordance of two methods of assessing aggression: self-report and clinical assessment and, second, to determine the degree to which aggression can be discriminated from neighbouring constructs, such as hostility, anger and criminal behaviour. Methods A nationally representative Swedish cohort of 269 18-25-year-old incarcerated violent offenders was recruited. Data were collected through structured self-reports of aggression, anger and hostility traits (Aggression Questionnaire-Revised Swedish Version) and clinical assessments of lifetime prevalence of aggressive and antisocial behaviours (Life History of Aggression). Criminal records were retrieved from the Swedish National Crime Register. Results Self-ratings and clinician-ratings of aggression were highly convergent and concordant, especially regarding physical aggression. Violent offence records were weakly, if at all, correlated, while self-reported hostility was weakly, or not at all, correlated with self-reported or with clinician-rated aggression. There was an inverse relationship between aggression and criminal records of sexual offences. Conclusions and Implications Even though a combination of self-reports and clinician-ratings may provide a better overview of an individual's aggressive behaviours, our results indicate that they yield such similar information that either alone would be sensitive enough. Our results do not, however, support using one of these methods as a proxy for the other since choice of measure and accepted concordance between them depend on the context within which the assessment is conducted. We reconfirmed that official records of violent offending are unlikely to be adequate measures of outcome after interventions to reduce aggressive behaviours.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Neurovetenskaper (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Neurosciences (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- aggression
- Aggression Questionnaire‐
- Revised Swedish Version
- concordance
- convergent validity
- life history of aggression
- violence
- convergent validity
- psychometric evaluation
- life-history
- questionnaire
- anger
- recidivism
- behavior
- health
- population
- prediction
- Criminology & Penology
- Psychiatry
- Aggression Questionnaire-Revised Swedish Version
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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