Brinkley Chad A, Diamond Pamela M, Magaletta Philip R, Heigel Caron P
Department of Psychology, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, MO 65801, USA.
Assessment. 2008 Dec;15(4):464-82. doi: 10.1177/1073191108319043. Epub 2008 Jun 20.
Levenson, Kiehl, and Fitzpatrick's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRPS) is evaluated to determine the factor structure and concurrent validity of the instrument among 430 federal female inmates. Confirmatory factor analysis fails to validate the expected 2-factor structure. Subsequent exploratory factor analysis reveals a 3-factor structure (egocentric, antisocial, and callous), where each factor accounts for significant variance in scores on several theoretically relevant measures. Higher scores on the antisocial factor of the LSRPS are associated with a history of varied psychopathological and negative legal outcomes, suggesting evidence of concurrent validity. However, the egocentric and callous factors do not seem to measure precisely the same construct as the primary psychopathy factor from the Levenson et al. study. The 3-factor structure proposed here has been proposed by other researchers and found in other samples of psychopathy in female inmates. Implications for both research and clinical practice using the LSRPS with female inmates are discussed.
对莱文森、基尔和菲茨帕特里克的自陈式精神病态量表（LSRPS）进行评估，以确定该工具在430名联邦女性囚犯中的因子结构和同时效度。验证性因子分析未能证实预期的双因子结构。随后的探索性因子分析揭示了一个三因子结构（自我中心、反社会和冷酷无情），其中每个因子在几个理论相关测量的得分中占显著方差。LSRPS反社会因子得分较高与多种精神病理学和负面法律结果的历史相关，表明有同时效度的证据。然而，自我中心和冷酷无情因子似乎并未精确测量莱文森等人研究中的主要精神病态因子所测量的相同结构。这里提出的三因子结构已被其他研究人员提出，并在女性囚犯的其他精神病态样本中发现。讨论了在对女性囚犯使用LSRPS进行研究和临床实践方面的意义。
