Magyar Melissa, Carr W Amory, Rosenfeld Barry, Rotter Merrill
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4235, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2010 Dec;54(6):865-77. doi: 10.1177/0306624X09344105. Epub 2009 Aug 26.
The relationship between psychopathy and thinking styles that support and maintain a criminal lifestyle is examined using the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; Hart, Cox, & Hare, 1995) and the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS; Walters, 1995). These measures are administered to a sample of 75 patients recruited from a state psychiatric hospital in the northeastern United States. Correlational analyses indicate that the PICTS General Criminal Thinking, Self-Assertion/Deception factor scale, and several criminal thinking style scales are significantly related to psychopathy. The significantly associated criminal thinking scales include Entitlement (r = .44) and Superoptimism (r = .43) with Factors 1 and 2 of the PCL:SV, respectively. Multiple regression analyses reveal that these two criminal thinking scales are the strongest predictors of Factors 1 and 2 of the PCL:SV, respectively. Implications for the cognitive basis of the construct of psychopathy, as well as potential treatment interventions, are discussed.
使用《精神病态核查表：筛查版》（PCL:SV；哈特、考克斯和黑尔，1995年）以及《犯罪思维方式心理量表》（PICTS；沃尔特斯，1995年），对支持并维持犯罪生活方式的精神病态与思维方式之间的关系进行了研究。这些测量工具被应用于从美国东北部一家州立精神病院招募的75名患者样本。相关分析表明，PICTS的一般犯罪思维、自我肯定/欺骗因子量表以及几个犯罪思维方式量表与精神病态显著相关。显著相关的犯罪思维量表包括权利感（r = 0.44）和过度乐观（r = 0.43），分别与PCL:SV的因子1和因子2相关。多元回归分析显示，这两个犯罪思维量表分别是PCL:SV因子1和因子2的最强预测指标。文中还讨论了对精神病态这一概念的认知基础以及潜在治疗干预措施的影响。
