Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Antisocial Process Screening Device.

Self-reported psychopathic traits among non-referred Finnish adolescents: psychometric properties of the Youth Psychopathic traits Inventory and the Antisocial Process Screening Device

BACKGROUND In general psychiatric services, cost-benefit screening instruments for psychopathic traits in adolescents are needed. The aim of the present study was to study the psychometric properties of the Finnish versions of the Youth Psychopathic traits Inventory (YPI) and the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD-SR) in community youth. As gender-specific differences exist in psychopath...

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Introduction: The Dark Triad Scale is a new tool for quick and easy recognition in the field of personality. This study examined the Construct Validity of Dark Triad Questionnaire. Methods: The population included all active users who have an email. 272 people were selected as the sample by using the snowball sampling method. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis and AMCS-22 softw...

A bifactorial solution to the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version in a sample of civil psychiatric patients.

BACKGROUND There is considerable debate about the underlying factor structure of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV). An established view is that it reflects a unitary construct underpinned by two correlated factors. More recent research has, however, undermined this conceptualisation. AIMS Our aim was to compare 10 competing models of the PCL: SV in a sample of civil psych...

Confirmatory factor analysis of the DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder: Findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

The P-psychopathy continuum: Facets of Psychoticism and their associations with psychopathic tendencies

Eysenck proposed that psychopathy is at the extreme end of the Psychoticism (P) personality dimension (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1976). This study examined (i) whether psychopathy-relevant P items of the EPQ-R can form psychometrically valid facets that map onto the conceptualization of the two-, threeor fourfactor models of psychopathy using confirmatory factor analysis (N = 577) in a normal populati...