Validating the factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale in a community sample.

Mahmut, MK; Menictas, C; Stevenson, RJ; Homewood, J

Validating the factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale in a community sample.

Mahmut, MK Menictas, C Stevenson, RJ Homewood, J

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Citation:: Psychol Assess, 2011, 23 (3), pp. 670 - 678
Issue Date:: 2011-09

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dc.contributor.author	Mahmut, MK	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Menictas, C	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Stevenson, RJ	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Homewood, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-09	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Psychol Assess, 2011, 23 (3), pp. 670 - 678	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18889
dc.description.abstract	Currently, there is no standard self-report measure of psychopathy in community-dwelling samples that parallels the most commonly used measure of psychopathy in forensic and clinical samples, the Psychopathy Checklist. A promising instrument is the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP), which was derived from the original version the Psychopathy Checklist. The most recent version of the SRP (SRP-III; D. L. Paulhus, C. S. Neumann, & R. D. Hare, in press) has shown good convergent and discriminate validity and a factor structure similar to the current version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991, 2003). The analyses in the current study further investigated the viability of the SRP-III as a PCL-R-analogous measure of psychopathy in nonforensic and nonclinical samples by extending the validation process to a community sample. Using confirmatory factor analyses and logistic regressions, the results revealed that a four-factor oblique model for the SRP-III was most tenable, congruent with the PCL-R factor structure of psychopathy and previous research in which the SRP-III was administered to a student sample.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Psychol Assess	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1037/a0023090	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Clinical Psychology	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Factor Analysis, Statistical	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Reproducibility of Results	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Antisocial Personality Disorder	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Psychiatric Status Rating Scales	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Personality Inventory	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Crime	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Adult	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Female	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Male	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Self Report	en_US
dc.title	Validating the factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale in a community sample.	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

Currently, there is no standard self-report measure of psychopathy in community-dwelling samples that parallels the most commonly used measure of psychopathy in forensic and clinical samples, the Psychopathy Checklist. A promising instrument is the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP), which was derived from the original version the Psychopathy Checklist. The most recent version of the SRP (SRP-III; D. L. Paulhus, C. S. Neumann, & R. D. Hare, in press) has shown good convergent and discriminate validity and a factor structure similar to the current version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991, 2003). The analyses in the current study further investigated the viability of the SRP-III as a PCL-R-analogous measure of psychopathy in nonforensic and nonclinical samples by extending the validation process to a community sample. Using confirmatory factor analyses and logistic regressions, the results revealed that a four-factor oblique model for the SRP-III was most tenable, congruent with the PCL-R factor structure of psychopathy and previous research in which the SRP-III was administered to a student sample.

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