1. The Validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised in a Community Sample
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Eva Van den Bussche, Katarzyna Uzieblo, Bruno Verschuere, Geert Crombez, Criminology, and Experimental and Applied Psychology
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Male ,Self-Assessment ,validity ,Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised ,Statistics as Topic ,Test validity ,Anxiety ,psychometric properties ,empathy quotient ,Developmental psychology ,traits ,Residence Characteristics ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Big Five personality traits ,Applied Psychology ,Antisocial Personality Disorder ,psychopathic personality inventory-revised ,self-report ,Middle Aged ,construct-validity ,Aggression ,Clinical Psychology ,abuse screening-test ,Alcoholism ,Psychopathic Personality Inventory ,high-functioning autism ,Data Interpretation, Statistical ,community ,Female ,Personality Assessment Inventory ,Psychology ,Adult ,Personality Tests ,Adolescent ,Psychometrics ,Levenson's Self-Report Measure for Psychopathy ,Substance-Related Disorders ,Concurrent validity ,Psychopathy ,youth psychopathic traits inventory ,psychopathy ,normal sex-differences ,Young Adult ,medicine ,Humans ,Interpersonal Relations ,Aged ,self-report measures ,Discriminant validity ,Construct validity ,Reproducibility of Results ,medicine.disease ,Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory ,asperger-syndrome ,confirmatory factor-analysis ,Impulsive Behavior ,levenson's self-report measure for psychopathy ,Power, Psychological - Abstract
Research on the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R) has revealed two factors: Fearless Dominance, and Self-Centered Impulsivity. This study examined the validity of these PPI-R factors in a community sample (N = 675). First, confirmatory factor analyses did not support the two-factor structure. Second, the PPI-R factors showed good convergent and discriminant validity with two other self-report measures of psychopathy, that is, the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory and Levenson's Self-Report of Psychopathy. Third, PPI-R factors exhibited good external validity in relation to various theoretically relevant correlates. The results indicate that the PPI-R factors have good convergent, discriminant, and external validity, but confirmatory factor analysis raises concerns about the robustness of the two-factor structure. Keywords psychopathy, self-report measures, validity, community, Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised, Levenson’s Self-Report Measure for Psychopathy, Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory ispartof: Assessment vol:17 issue:3 pages:334-346 ispartof: location:United States status: published
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- 2010