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Further Validation of Triarchic Psychopathy Scales From the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire: Setting the Stage for Large-Sample Etiological Studies
- Source :
- Assessment. 24(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Psychopathy as conceptualized by the triarchic model encompasses three distinct dispositional constructs: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. The current study sought to further validate triarchic (Tri) construct scales composed of items from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) as a foundation for advancing research on the etiology of psychopathy using existing large-scale longitudinal studies. MPQ-Tri scales were examined in three samples: mixed-gender undergraduate students ( N = 346), male offenders from a residential substance abuse treatment facility ( N = 190), and incarcerated female offenders ( N = 216). Across these three samples, the MPQ-Tri scales demonstrated high internal consistency and clear convergent and discriminant associations with criterion measures of psychopathy and other psychopathology outcomes. Gender comparisons revealed relatively few differences in relationships with criterion measures. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for further investigation of the causal bases of psychopathy and other forms of psychopathology utilizing data from large etiologically informative studies.
- Subjects :
- Male
050103 clinical psychology
Personality Inventory
Psychometrics
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychopathy
Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire
Triarchic theory of intelligence
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Drug Users
medicine
Personality
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Students
Applied Psychology
media_common
Boldness
Prisoners
05 social sciences
Antisocial Personality Disorder
medicine.disease
Meanness
Clinical Psychology
Female
Construct (philosophy)
Psychology
Psychopathology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15523489
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....27136872b8c2e1bc951641cde3c6e29c