RT Article
T1 Victimization Can Lead to Transgression: Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Short Stressful Life Events Questionnaire in Adolescents
JF Victims & offenders
VO 19
IS 2
SP 179
OP 207
A1 Concha-Salgado, Andrés
A2 Alarcón, Paula
A2 Wenger, Lorena
A2 Pérez-Luco, Ricardo
A2 Chesta, Sergio
A2 García-Cueto, Eduardo
A2 Lucio Gómez Maqueo, Emilia
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1880153025
AB We aimed to provide evidence of validity and reliability for the scores of a stressful life events risk assessment in offender and non-offender Chilean adolescents. The design was instrumental. A total of 2,516 adolescents from two previous projects were part of the study. The offender sub-sample (25.36%) was recruited by non-probabilistic convenience sampling and the non-offender (74.64%) by proportional and stratified by conglomerates sampling. We identified 47 items that are risk factors for delinquency and antisocial outcomes, and we grouped them into six theoretical dimensions. We obtained good content coherence, acceptable internal consistency, adequate factor structure, convergent associations with theoretically related constructs, and predictive capacity for some dimensions. The logistic regression analysis showed that adolescents who accumulated more risk factors had an augmented risk of being an offender. The hierarchical multiple regression indicated that four of the six dimensions were predictors of violent antisocial behavior. As evidence of three validity sources and reliability were demonstrated, we recommend using the scale for detecting events that are risk factors of antisocial and delinquent behavior in adolescents and for intervention to prevent violent criminal and antisocial conduct.
K1 violent antisocial behavior
K1 Reliability
K1 validity evidence
K1 Offender
K1 Risk Factors
K1 Stressful life events
DO 10.1080/15564886.2022.2111739