Development of a valid psychological scale for youth police selection among young unemployed and excluded persons: The Nemesis scale.
BACKGROUND: Youth, unemployment and poverty confirm a set of situations that are often inseparable. An example of this is the case of young people from the Andean coca areas. OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a psychological test that can be used as a predictor of adequate police performance for us...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 689 - 700 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2021
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