Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2013 Nov;122(4):1088-93. doi: 10.1037/a0034062.
Despite increased interest in female psychopathy, more work is needed to establish commonalities between the nomological networks for psychopathy in men and women. The current study sought to advance understanding of affective deficits in female psychopathy, as assessed by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). Forty-eight female inmates were tested in an affect-startle paradigm involving passive viewing of emotional and neutral picture stimuli. Results showed that women scoring high on PCL-R psychopathy exhibited deficits in startle reactivity to unpleasant pictures, especially with regard to victim-distress scenes, highlighting a specific insensitivity to the vicarious distress of others. The deficient affective modulation was specific to interpersonal-affective features and not adult/child antisocial features. These data confirm deficits in affective responding among women high on psychopathy, with implications for fear- versus empathy-related conceptualizations of psychopathic women.
尽管人们对女性精神病态学越来越感兴趣，但仍需要更多的工作来确定男性和女性精神病态学的规律网络之间的共同点。本研究旨在深入了解女性精神病态学中的情感缺陷，这是通过修订后的精神病态检查表（PCL-R）评估的。对 48 名女囚犯进行了情感惊吓范式测试，涉及被动观看情感和中性图片刺激。结果表明，PCL-R 精神病态高分的女性在对不愉快图片的惊吓反应中表现出缺陷，特别是对受害者痛苦场景，突出了对他人痛苦的特定不敏感。情感调节的缺陷特定于人际情感特征，而不是成人/儿童反社会特征。这些数据证实了高精神病态女性的情感反应缺陷，这对恐惧与共情相关的女性精神病态概念化具有影响。
