TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Reliability, construct, and concurrent validities of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire: a tool for assessing violent and nonviolent recidivism
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Loza, Wagdy
A1  - Dhaliwal, Gurmeet
A1  - Kroner, Daryl G.
A1  - Loza-Fanous, Amel
SP  - 356
EP  - 374
VL  - 27
IS  - 3
N2  - The Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) is a recently developed self-report questionnaire designed to predict violent and nonviolent offender recidivism. This 67-item, six-subscale tool measures quantitative criminogenic risk-need areas. The SAQ was administered to 303 federally sentenced Canadian male offenders. The total scale test-retest reliability coefficient was.95 and ranged from.69 to.93 for the subscales. Coefficient alphas ranged from.42 to.87. All the subscales with the exception of one had a one-factor solution. The SAQ subscales correlated with other instruments assessing similar constructs and with other measures of recidivism. Offenders with high SAQ totals and subscale scores committed significantly more offenses than did those with low SAQ scores. Similarly, offenders with a history of violence had higher SAQ total scores than the offenders with no history of violence. These preliminary results support the further study of the SAQ as an instrument for predicting violent and nonviolent recidivism.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854800027003005
ID  - ref1
ER  -