TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - The self-report delinquency scale from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health among at-risk for delinquency youths
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Pechorro, Pedro
A1  - Moreira, Katinea
A1  - Basto-Pereira, Miguel
A1  - Oliveira, João Pedro
A1  - Ray, James V.
SP  - 120
EP  - 135
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
N2  - Juvenile delinquency is a universal problem, with serious personal, economic, and social consequences that span national boundaries. Thus, cross-culturally valid and reliable measures of delinquency are critical to providing a better understanding of the causes, correlates, and outcomes of delinquency. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the self-report delinquency measure items created for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). A sample (<i>N</i> = 412) of male (<i>n</i> = 200) and female (<i>n</i> = 212) at-risk for delinquency youths agreed to participate in the present study. The measure demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties, namely in terms of its two-factor structure (violent and nonviolent delinquency), internal consistency, convergent validity, discriminant validity, criterion-related validity, and known-groups validity. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest the Add Health Self-Report Delinquency (AHSRD) is an interculturally valid and reliable measure of violent and nonviolent delinquency among at-risk male and female youths.<br><br>© Copyright 2019 Springer Publishing Company, LLC.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.34.1.120
ID  - ref1
ER  -