Department of Psychology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA.
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University Atlanta, GA, USA.
Front Psychol. 2014 Jul 22;5:740. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00740. eCollection 2014.
Although the traits of psychopathic personality (psychopathy) have received extensive attention from researchers in forensic psychology, psychopathology, and personality psychology, the relations of these traits to aspects of everyday functioning are poorly understood. Using a large internet survey of members of the general population (N = 3388), we examined the association between psychopathic traits, as measured by a brief but well-validated self-report measure, and occupational choice, political orientation, religious affiliation, and geographical residence. Psychopathic traits, especially those linked to fearless dominance, were positively and moderately associated with holding leadership and management positions, as well as high-risk occupations. In addition, psychopathic traits were positively associated with political conservatism, lack of belief in God, and living in Europe as opposed to the United States, although the magnitudes of these statistical effects were generally small in magnitude. Our findings offer preliminary evidence that psychopathic personality traits display meaningful response penetration into daily functioning, and raise provocative questions for future research.
尽管精神病态人格（psychopathy）的特征引起了法医心理学、精神病理学和人格心理学研究人员的广泛关注，但这些特征与日常生活功能方面的关系仍知之甚少。本研究使用一项针对普通人群成员（N=3388）的大型互联网调查，考察了一种简短但经过良好验证的自陈式测量工具所测量的精神病态特征与职业选择、政治取向、宗教信仰和地理居住之间的关系。精神病态特征，尤其是与无畏支配相关的特征，与领导和管理职位以及高风险职业呈正相关且中等程度相关。此外，精神病态特征与政治保守主义、不信仰上帝以及居住在欧洲而非美国呈正相关，尽管这些统计效应的幅度通常较小。我们的研究结果初步表明，精神病态人格特征确实会对日常生活功能产生显著影响，这为未来的研究提出了一些有启发性的问题。
