CMI – 58
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:
1)
_____ purposely damage or destroy property that did not belong to you.
2)
_____ break into a vehicle.
3)
_____ steal something from a store.
4)
_____ attack someone with a weapon.
5)
_____ throw objects (such as rocks, snowballs, or bottles) at cars or people.
6)
_____ carry a hidden weapon.
7)
_____ assault someone and injure him/her (including a sports setting).
8)
_____ pay for sex with someone (including phone sex).
9)
_____ join a gang that was known to commit crimes.
10)
_____ sell marijuana or hashish ("pot", "grass", "hash").
11)
_____ copy answers from someone else’s test at school.
12)
_____ get totally drunk.
13)
_____ steal money from your parents.
14)
_____ hit someone with your hand or fist.
15)
_____ drive while impaired by alcohol or drugs.
16)
_____ sell hard drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD.
17)
_____ take a vehicle for a ride without the owner's permission.
18)
_____ buy alcohol while underage.
19)
_____ use physical force in order to get someone to have sex with you.
20)
_____ use physical force to get money or things from someone.
21)
_____ sneak into a movie, bus, or subway without paying.
22)
_____ steal something at school, such as someone's jacket or money.
23)
_____ participate in a street race as a driver.
24)
_____ break into a building to steal something or mess it up.
25)
_____ receive a speeding ticket.
26)
_____ sneak out at night without your parents’ knowledge.
27)
_____ get suspended from school.
28)
_____ kick someone in anger.
29)
_____ swear at adults (e.g. parents, salesclerks, telephone solicitors, teachers).
30)
_____ purposely harass someone on the telephone or on email.
31)
_____ yell at other drivers so they could hear you.
32)
_____ buy or sell goods you knew to be stolen.
33)
_____ spend a night (or more) in jail.
34)
_____ plagiarize (copy) a school essay.
35)
_____ use prescription drugs (e.g. valium, codeine) to the level of abuse.
36)
_____ use hallucinogens ("LSD", "Mescaline", "Peyote", "Acid").
37)
_____ use marijuana-hashish ("pot", "grass", "hash").
38)
_____ use heroin ("Horse", "Smack").
39)
_____ use cocaine (“coke”).
40)
_____ use ecstasy (“X”).
41)
_____ use other illegal drugs (Uppers or Downers).
42)
_____ lie about your age, e.g., to buy alcohol or get into a club.
43)
_____ run away from home.
These days, in AVERAGE MONTH month, how often do you do the following:
44)
_____ have more than one alcoholic drink at a time.
45)
_____ use soft drugs.
46)
_____ honk in anger at other drivers.
47)
_____ say cruel things to others.
48)
_____ shove or slap someone.
49)
_____ appear obviously drunk in public places.
50)
_____ ridicule someone who is helpless.
51)
_____ play violent sports.
52)
_____ park in an illegal parking spot.
53)
_____ drive 20 miles over the speed limit
54)
_____ argue with your parents.
55)
_____ tail-gate someone on purpose.
56)
_____ do things just to bother authority figures (e.g., teachers, parents, other adults).
57)
_____ download illegally copied programs from the internet.
58)
_____ drive a motor vehicle.
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):
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Soft Drug Abuse (SDA) = 12, 15, 18, 35, 37, 44, 45, 49 (8 items)
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Hard Drug Abuse (HDA) = 16, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 (6 items)
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Minor Criminality (MC) = 3, 5, 8, 11, 21, 22, 27, 32, 34, 42 (10 items)
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Serious Criminality (SC) = 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 19, 24, 33 (10 items)
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Driving Misbehavior (DM) = 17, 23, 25, 31, 46, 53, 55 (7 items)
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Bullying/Harassing (BH) = 7, 20, 28, 30, 47, 48, 50, 51 (8 items)
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Anti-Authority Misbehavior (AA) = 13, 26, 29, 43, 52, 54, 56, 57 (8 items)
Notes:
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The items may be combined to form an Overall Misbehavior score.
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SDA and HDA items may be combined into a general Substance Abuse factor.
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MC and SC items may be combined to form a general Criminality factor.
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Items 1 - 43 may be combined to form a High School Misbehavior index.
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Items 44- 57 may be combined to form a Current Misbehavior index.
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Item 58 can be used to control the DM factor for amount of driving.
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The seven subscales were developed from (oblique) factor analyses of data from students at the
University of British Columbia:
Citations:
Williams, K., McAndrew, A., Learn, T., Harms, P., & Paulhus, D.L. (2001, August). Dark Personalities:
Anti-social behavior and entertainment preferences. Presented at meeting of the American
Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Williams, K. M., & Paulhus, D. L. (2004). Factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP-II)
in non-forensic samples Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 765-778.
Williams, K.M., Paulhus, D.L., & Hare, R.D. (2007). The four facet structure of psychopathy in nonforensic samples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 118-129.
Version date: November 2013