Walters Glenn D, Brinkley Chad A, Magaletta Philip R, Diamond Pamela M
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, Minersville, PA 17954-0700, USA.
J Pers Assess. 2008 Sep;90(5):491-8. doi: 10.1080/00223890802248828.
Levenson's Self-Report Psychopathy scale (Levenson, Kiehl, & Fitzpatrick, 1995) was administered to 1,972 male and female federal prison inmates, the results of which were subjected to taxometric analysis. We employed 4 taxometric procedures in this study: mean above minus below a cut (Meehl & Yonce, 1994), maximum slope (Grove & Meehl, 1993), maximum eigenvalue (Waller & Meehl, 1998), and latent-mode factor analysis (Waller & Meehl, 1998). The results showed consistent support for a dimensional interpretation of the latent structure of psychopathy, corroborating previous research conducted on the Psychopathy Checklist (e.g., Psychopathy Checklist-Revised; Hare, 2003) and Psychopathic Personality Inventory (Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996) and denoting that psychopathy is a dimensional construct (degree of psychopathic characteristics) rather than a qualitatively distinct category of behavior (psychopath).
对1972名男性和女性联邦监狱囚犯施测了莱文森自陈式精神病态量表(莱文森、基尔和菲茨帕特里克,1995年),并对结果进行了税ometric分析。本研究采用了4种税ometric程序:均值高于减去低于临界值法(米尔和扬斯,1994年)、最大斜率法(格罗夫和米尔,1993年)、最大特征值法(沃勒和米尔,1998年)以及潜在模式因子分析法(沃勒和米尔,1998年)。结果显示,对精神病态潜在结构的维度解释得到了一致支持,证实了先前对《精神病态核查表》(如《精神病态核查表修订版》;黑尔,2003年)和《精神病态人格问卷》(利林菲尔德和安德鲁斯,1996年)所做的研究,并表明精神病态是一个维度性结构(精神病态特征的程度),而非一种性质上截然不同的行为类别(精神病患者)。