Score Metric Equivalence of the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) Across Criminal Offenders in North America and the United Kingdom: A Critique of Cooke, Michie, Hart, and Clark (2005) and New Analyses  

Oleh:

Bolt, Daniel M. ; Hare, Robert D. ; Neumann, Craig S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Assessment vol. 14 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 44-56.
Topik: psychopathy; item response theory; differential item functioning; Psychopathy Checklist–Revised; PCL-R
Fulltext: 44.pdf (135.96KB)

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David Cooke and colleagues have published a series of item response theory (IRT) studies investigating the equivalence of the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) for European versus North American (NA) male criminal offenders. They have consistently concluded that PCL-R scores are not equivalent, with European offenders receiving scores up to five points lower than those in NA when matched according to the latent trait. In this article, the authors critique the Cooke et al. analyses and demonstrate how their anchor item selection method is responsible for their final conclusions concerning the apparent lack of equivalence. The authors provide a competing IRT analysis using an iterative purification strategy for anchor item selection and show how this more justifiable approach leads to very different conclusions regarding the equivalence of the PCL-R. More generally, it is argued that strong interpretations of IRT analyses in the presence of uncorroborated anchor items can be highly misleading when evaluating score metric equivalence.

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