Construct Validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory Two-Factor Model With Offenders.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2006

Publication Title

Psychological Assessment

Volume

18

Issue

2

First page number:

204

Last page number:

208

Abstract

Much of the research on psychopathy has treated it as a unitary construct operationalized by total scores on one (or more) measures. More recent studies on the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) suggest the existence of two distinct facets of psychopathy with unique external correlates. Here, the authors report reanalyses of two offender data sets that included scores on the PPI along with various theoretically relevant criterion variables. Consistent with hypotheses, the two PPI factors showed convergent and discriminant relations with criterion measures, many of which would otherwise have been obscured when relying on PPI total scores. These results highlight the importance of examining facets of psychopathy as well as total scores.

Keywords

Psychopathy; Psychopathic personlity inventory; Facets of psychopathy; PPI factors; PPI total scores

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Mental Disorders | Psychiatry and Psychology

Language

English

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