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Interfacing five-factor model and triarchic conceptualizations of psychopathy
- Source :
- Psychological assessment. 30(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The lexically based five-factor model (FFM) of personality has been a highly influential research framework for characterizing clinical-psychological conditions, including psychopathy, in lexical-trait terms. An alternative trait-descriptive framework, the triarchic model was formulated to characterize psychopathy in neurobehavioral-trait terms, in order to facilitate linkages with variables in the domain of neurobiology. The current study used data from a mixed-gender sample (N = 769; M age = 19.3) to establish an interface between the FFM and triarchic frameworks by identifying subsets of items from a widely used five-factor personality inventory, the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R), that effectively index the dimensional constructs of the triarchic model (boldness, meanness, and disinhibition). A consensus rating and psychometric refinement approach was used to select NEO-PI-R items for assessing each triarchic dimension, and the resulting NEO-Tri item-sets ("scales") were evaluated in relation to criteria including other scale measures of the triarchic constructs, reported antisocial behavior and drug/alcohol use, and an FFM-generated omnibus psychopathy measure, the Psychopathy Resemblance Index. The NEO-Tri scales were also evaluated for effectiveness as indicators of latent triarchic dimensions within a confirmatory factor analysis anchored by previously validated triarchic scale measures. Results of this work have implications for clarifying how the triarchic model dimensions relate to normal-range personality traits and FFM-based conceptions of psychopathy, and provide a foundation for further examining neurobiological correlates of the triarchic model dimensions using existing multidomain data-sets that include the NEO-PI-R. (PsycINFO Database Record
- Subjects :
- Male
050103 clinical psychology
Consensus
Psychometrics
Adolescent
Personality Inventory
Substance-Related Disorders
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychopathy
050109 social psychology
Models, Psychological
Triarchic theory of intelligence
Developmental psychology
Young Adult
Reference Values
medicine
Personality
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Big Five personality traits
media_common
Problem Behavior
05 social sciences
Antisocial Personality Disorder
medicine.disease
Meanness
Confirmatory factor analysis
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Inhibition, Psychological
Female
Personality Assessment Inventory
Psychology
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1939134X
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ea09885b0a3556b037e273c4b2a90eb8