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A Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) James Ray University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Synonyms Psychopathy Screening Device (PSD) Definition Psychopathy is a personality disorder comprised of an arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style, a deficient affective experience, and an impulsive and irresponsible behavioral style. The Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is a screening tool for assessing psychopathy among children and adolescents. Introduction Psychopathy is a multifaceted construct that iden- tifies a subgroup of seriously violent adult offenders with distinct etiologies underlying their behavior. Attempts to identify this subgroup in earlier developmental stages in order to prevent this serious pattern of behavior have emerged. Such attempts are contingent on the development of tools that can accurately assess these character- istics among youth. As a result, a number of psychopathy measures appropriate for youth have been introduced to this end. The APSD was one of the first methods developed to serve as a screening and research tool for assessing psy- chopathy among youth. Description of APSD The APSD (Frick and Hare 2001) was originally developed as a 20-item measure designed to eval- uate psychopathy based on the content of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare 1998) from which items were appropriately extended downward to youth. Each item of the APSD is rated on a three-point Likert scale (0 = not at all true,1 = sometimes true, or 3 = definitely true). The APSD was designed for a variety of settings (e.g., forensic, clinical, and community) and has an administration time of approximately 10 min. In addition to the calcula- tion of a total psychopathy score, the APSD was designed to capture two dimensions consistent with Factor 1 (interpersonal/affective) and Factor 2 (impulsive-antisocial lifestyle) of the PCL-R which were respectively labeled callous/unemo- tional and impulsivity/conduct problems. How- ever, subsequent studies found stronger evidence for a three-factor structure of APSD that separates the impulsivity/conduct problems factor into sep- arate narcissism and impulsivity factors while the # Springer International Publishing AG 2016 V. Zeigler-Hill, T.K. Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1-1
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
