Structural coherence and temporal stability of psychopathic personality features during emerging adulthood.
J Abnorm Psychol
; 123(3): 623-33, 2014 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder characterized by affective, interpersonal, and behavioral dimensions. Although features of psychopathy have been extended downwardly to earlier developmental periods, there is a discerning lack of studies that have focused on critically important issues such as longitudinal invariance and stability/change in these features across time. The current study examines these issues using a large sample of male adolescent offenders (N = 1,170) assessed across 7 annual time points during the transition into emerging adulthood (ages â¼17 to 24 years). Findings demonstrated that features of psychopathy remained longitudinally invariant across this developmental period, and showed temporally consistent and theoretically coherent associations with other measures of personality, psychopathology, and criminal behaviors. Results also demonstrated that mean levels of psychopathic personality features tended to decrease into emerging adulthood and showed relatively modest rank-order stability across assessments with 7-year lags. These findings suggest that reductions in maladaptive personality features seem to parallel the well-documented decreases in offending that occur during the early 20s.
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Asunto principal:
Criminales
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Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
J Abnorm Psychol
Año:
2014
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Article