Comprehensive Misconduct Inventory (CMI – 50)

Background:

The association between psychopathy and self-reported misconduct has been established in offender samples and non-offender samples. Psychopathy, as measured by the SRP-II, is the best predictor of all forms of misconduct included in the CMI. The 50-item Comprehensive Misconduct Inventory (CMI-50) instrument covers a wide variety of misbehaviors from mild to extreme.  Factoring yields five clusters: Criminal Behavior, Driving Misconduct, Bullying, Drug & Alcohol abuse and Anti-Authority Aggression.

Psychometrics:

For information on psychometrics see: Williams, K.M., Paulhus, D.L., & Hare, R.D. (2007).  The four facet structure of psychopathy in non-forensic samples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 118-129.

Author of Tool:

Paulhus, D. L.

Key references:

Primary use / Purpose:

Assesses forms of misconduct, useful in predicting psychopathy.

 

Comprehensive Misconduct Inventory (CMI – 50)

Although everyone misbehaves as a teenager, we all do it in different ways. Write a number in each space provided.  Your answers will not be stored with your name, so please be totally honest.

 

During your high school years, how many times did you:

•           purposely damage or destroy property that did not belong to
•           break into a
•           steal something from a store.
•           attack someone with a
•           throw objects (such as rocks, snowballs, or bottles) at cars or
•           carry a hidden
•           assault someone and injure him/her (including a sports setting).
•           pay for sex with someone (including phone sex).
•           join a gang that was known to commit crimes.
•           sell marijuana or hashish (“pot”, “grass”, “hash”).
•           copy answers from someone else’s test at
•           get totally
•           steal money from your
•           hit someone with your hand or
•           drive while impaired by alcohol or
•           sell hard drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD.
•           take a vehicle for a ride without the owner’s permission.
•           buy alcohol while underage.
•           use physical force in order to get someone to have sex with
•           use physical force to get money or things from
•           sneak into a movie, bus, or subway without paying.
•           steal something at school, such as someone’s jacket or
•           participate in a street race as a
•           break into a building to steal something or mess it up.
•           receive a speeding
•           sneak out at night without your parents’
•           get suspended from
•           kick someone in
•           swear at adults (e.g. parents, salesclerks, telephone solicitors, teachers).
•           purposely harass someone on the telephone or on email.
•           yell at other drivers so they could hear
•           buy or sell goods you knew to be
•           spend a night (or more) in jail.
•           plagiarize (copy) a school
•           use prescription drugs (e.g. valium, codeine) to the level of
•           use hallucinogens (“LSD”, “Mescaline”, “Peyote”, “Acid”).
•           use marijuana-hashish (“pot”, “grass”, “hash”).
•           use heroin (“Horse”, “Smack”).
•           use cocaine (“coke”).
•           use ecstasy (“X”).
•           use other illegal drugs (Uppers or Downers).
•           lie about your age, g., to buy alcohol or get into a club.
•           run away from

These days, in AVERAGE MONTH month, how often do you do the following:

•           have more than one alcoholic drink at a
•           use soft
•           honk in anger at other
•           say cruel things to
•           shove or slap
•           appear obviously drunk in public places.
•           ridicule someone who is
•           play violent
•           park in an illegal parking
•           drive 20 miles over the speed limit
•           argue with your
•           tail-gate someone on
•           do things just to bother authority figures (e.g., teachers, parents, other adults).
•           download illegally copied programs from the
•           drive a motor

CMI – 58 Scoring Key: 

Six subscale scores can be obtained by calculating the mean of the following items.

(Note that all items must be standardized prior to summing):

• Soft Drug Abuse (SDA) = 12, 15, 18, 35, 37, 44, 45, 49 (8 items)
• Hard Drug Abuse (HDA) = 16, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 (6 items)
• Minor Criminality (MC) = 3, 5, 8, 11, 21, 22, 27, 32, 34, 42 (10 items)
• Serious Criminality (SC) = 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 19, 24, 33 (10 items)
• Driving Misbehavior (DM) = 17, 23, 25, 31, 46, 53, 55 (7 items)
• Bullying/Harassing (BH) = 7, 20, 28, 30, 47, 48, 50, 51 (8 items)
• Anti-Authority Misbehavior (AA) = 13, 26, 29, 43, 52, 54, 56, 57 (8 items)

Notes:

• The items may be combined to form an Overall Misbehavior
• SDA and HDA items may be combined into a general Substance Abuse
• MC and SC items may be combined to form a general Criminality
• Items 1 – 43 may be combined to form a High School Misbehavior
• Items 44- 57 may be combined to form a Current Misbehavior index.
• Item 58 can be used to control the DM factor for amount of driving.
• The seven subscales were developed from (oblique) factor analyses of data from students at the University of British Columbia:

 

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