@article{ref1,
title="The self-report delinquency scale from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health among at-risk for delinquency youths",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2019",
author="Pechorro, Pedro and Moreira, Katinea and Basto-Pereira, Miguel and Oliveira, João Pedro and Ray, James V.",
volume="34",
number="1",
pages="120-135",
abstract="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>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/0886-6708.34.1.120",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.34.1.120"
}