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Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and Antisocial Behavior Among Adults and Adolescents

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Summary, in English

The reliability and validity of the self-report questionnaire How I Think (HIT), designed to assess self-serving cognitive distortions related to antisocial behavior, was tested among Swedish offender and nonoffender adults and adolescents (N = 364). The results showed self-serving distortions to be more common among offenders and to predict self-reported antisocial behavior when tested among adults. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed, in contrast to earlier findings, that the underlying structure of the HIT was best explained by a three-factor solution with one major cognitive factor, referred to as "criminal mind." It was concluded that the HIT, after further examination of its structural and divergent validity, could be used as a measure of criminal thinking in adults as well as in adolescents.

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

286-301

Publication/Series

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volume

38

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Psychiatry

Keywords

  • HIT
  • self-serving cognitive distortions
  • antisocial behavior
  • criminal
  • attitudes
  • dynamic risk assessment

Status

Published

Research group

  • Forensic Psychiatry, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0093-8548