RESEARCH INSTRUMENT VALIDITY STUDY

Research Instrument Validity Study

Abstract

The study relates to the antisocial behaviour among adolescents and children through which social rules and norms get violated. Antisocial behaviour of children is often disturbing in the way that it is perceived as it causes difficulties for the people around children. The problem is different from many other psychiatric conditions of children, in particular, as of the consequences and the suffering antisocial behaviours with it for other than the child. Criminal and aggressive behaviour in people of all ages causing demands, anger, and concern for that someone should do something. For the study, the approval is taken for the ethics in order to conduct the online survey which entails Adolescent Antisocial Attitudes Scale (AASAS), Antisocial Behaviour Scale (ASB) and Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) for the purpose of evaluating the empirical validity of the AASAS. The data is analyzed with the use of SPSS 19. The results showed that Adolescent Antisocial Attitudes Scale shows high levels; besides it, it is also revealed that overall antisocial behaviour among adolescents is also high in spite of the severity factor and age factor.

Abstract2

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Introduction4

Problem Area4

The Right Level of Effort6

Theories of Antisocial Behaviour6

Method8

Participants and Procedure8

Data Screening & Treatment8

Data Screening8

Data Treatment9

Results9

Discussion12

Aggression12

Depression13

Conduct Disorder14

Validity of the results14

Construct validity14

Predictive / criterion validity15

Convergent validity15

Divergent validity15

Concurrent validity16

Content validity16

Internal Consistency16

References18

Appendix20

Introduction

Antisocial behaviour among children and adolescents are the actions through which social norms and rules are violated. Examples of such actions is to run away from home, truancy, theft or burglary, destruction of property, fire place else, physical cruelty or actual violence against people or animals. The diagnosis of conduct disorder is used when the child and adolescents exhibits a pattern of antisocial behaviour over a longer time period. However, many children commit occasional, short-lived anti-social acts of varying severity sometime during their childhood but should be considered or diagnosed as conduct disorder. The problem is different from many other psychiatric conditions of children, precisely because of the consequences and the suffering anti-social behaviours with it for other than the child. The essential feature of antisocial behaviour is that other people's rights are ignored or to age-appropriate societal norms or rules are breached to an extent that affects daily life. Antisocial behaviour of adolescents is often so disturbing that it is perceived as it often causes handling difficulties of the immediate surroundings.

Problem Area

Aggressive and criminal behaviour in people of all ages causing concern, anger and demands for that someone should do something. Often, this is something that the person is required to identify and punish; being a person who breaks the norms and measures therefore often considered to be difficult and risking to be expelled from the peer group, school class, and finally from the society's overall community. Investments in increasingly divergent environments from special groups, family homes, institution to prison are unfortunately a contributory factor in this process. Past studies noted that the child and adolescent psychiatric practice lacks adequate treatment for children and adolescents with aggressive acting out (Seagrave and Grisso, ...