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AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTOR STRUCT
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Preface Ethics approval for this re
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3 Results .........................
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List of Tables Table 1 Confirmatory
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Acknowledgements I owe my deepest g
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To my family and friends, Thank you
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among female youth populations, the
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Third, it has been suggested that t
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only a small proportion of conduct-
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irresponsible, and antisocial tende
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A long line of research has demonst
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females. When a model is considered
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to do with whether the measure is w
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Understanding the factor structure
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(Leschied et al., 2001; Moretti, Ca
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psychopathic offenders were signifi
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instrumental aggression. However, w
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Given the relationships between the
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associated with self-report will be
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1.4.1 Hypotheses The current thesis
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ecords, school records, medical rec
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2.2.3 Instrumental-Reactive Coding
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eceiving services from YFPS. Althou
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3 Results 3.1 Coding Reliability In
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This was followed by acquaintance v
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Figure 2. Percentage of cases by se
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index that adjusts for model comple
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Item 1 Item 2 Item 4 Item 5 Item 6
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(1-19), 38.7% scored in the moderat
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offences, 28.6% were for revenge or
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association between the dichotomous
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from the original dataset. In other
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in instrumental aggression was acco
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