In researching the Jesness Inventory for a concurrent validity study with juvenile delinquents, sex differences were significant on only the last subscale, the Asocial Index. Subsequent analysis suggested that applying the all-male norms to females' scores on this subscale may lead to spurious results. Norms for females are needed.
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