Examining the Factor Structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Short-Form Across Four Young Adult Samples.
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; 24(8): 1062-1079, 2017 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
Psychopathy refers to a range of complex behaviors and personality traits, including callousness and antisocial behavior, typically studied in criminal populations. Recent studies have used self-reports to examine psychopathic traits among noncriminal samples. The goal of the current study was to examine the underlying factor structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Scale-Short Form (SRP-SF) across complementary samples and examine the impact of gender on factor structure. We examined the structure of the SRP-SF among 2,554 young adults from three undergraduate samples and a high-risk young adult sample. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a four-correlated factor model and a four-bifactor model showed good fit to the data. Evidence of weak invariance was found for both models across gender. These findings highlight that the SRP-SF is a useful measure of low-level psychopathic traits in noncriminal samples, although the underlying factor structure may not fully translate across men and women.
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Assunto principal:
Inventário de Personalidade
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Psicopatologia
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Transtorno da Personalidade Antissocial
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Middle aged
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article