Falkenbach Diana M, Stern Stephanie B, Creevy Caysyn
Department of Psychology.
Personal Disord. 2014 Jan;5(1):10-9. doi: 10.1037/per0000021. Epub 2013 Dec 23.
Psychopathy is a personality construct typically related to deficits in interpersonal and affective functioning and antisocial behavior. Currently, the majority of research focuses on the omnibus construct of psychopathy as it applies to criminal populations. However, theories of psychopathy and empirical evidence suggest that there may be different variants of psychopathy and diverse expressions of psychopathic traits across individuals. Thus, there is a need to consider psychopathy in terms of subtypes and across more broadly defined populations. The present study used model-based cluster analysis and garnered support for the differentiation of primary and secondary subtypes in a college sample. Analysis yielded 6 clusters, 2 of which demonstrated the expected patterns of traits indexed by theories of primary and secondary psychopathy; the factors of psychopathy, anxiety, borderline personality traits, aggression, and affect, all differentiated the subtypes. Overall, the results provide continued support for the existence of psychopathy variants in college samples, initial empirical support for model of psychopathy, and aid in the understanding of psychopathy subtypes.
精神病态是一种人格结构，通常与人际和情感功能缺陷以及反社会行为有关。目前，大多数研究集中在适用于犯罪人群的精神病态综合结构上。然而，精神病态理论和实证证据表明，可能存在不同类型的精神病态，且个体间精神病态特征的表现形式多样。因此，有必要从亚型角度并在更广泛定义的人群中考虑精神病态。本研究使用基于模型的聚类分析，并在一个大学样本中为区分原发性和继发性亚型获得了支持。分析产生了6个聚类，其中2个展示了原发性和继发性精神病态理论所索引的预期特征模式；精神病态、焦虑、边缘型人格特质、攻击性和情感等因素都区分了这些亚型。总体而言，研究结果持续支持大学样本中存在精神病态变体，为精神病态模型提供了初步实证支持，并有助于理解精神病态亚型。
