Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Department of Applied Psychology.
Personal Disord. 2020 Jul;11(4):290-299. doi: 10.1037/per0000370. Epub 2019 Nov 25.
There is growing support for the disaggregation of psychopathy into primary and secondary variants. The present study used latent profile analysis to distinguish psychopathic variants in a sample of male and female adolescent detainees ( = 162). Youth were classified by their scores on the self-report Triarchic Psychopathy Measure, indexing trait Boldness, Meanness, and Disinhibition, as well as measures of anxiety and guilt. Four groups were found, two of which were nonpsychopathic. Consistent with theory, however, two distinct classes of youth scoring high on psychopathic traits were identified: a primary variant with below-average levels of anxiety and guilt and a secondary variant with markedly above-average levels. Youth in the latter category also presented with the highest levels of psychopathology within the detainee sample. The ratio of males to females was 2:1 within the low-anxious psychopathy variant, and it was 1:2 in the high-anxious psychopathy variant. Implications for identification and treatment of adolescent psychopathic variants are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
越来越多的人支持将精神病态分为主要和次要变体。本研究使用潜在剖面分析在男性和女性青少年被拘留者样本（n=162）中区分精神病态变体。青少年根据他们在三因素精神病态量表上的自我报告得分进行分类，该量表衡量特质的大胆、卑鄙和去抑制，以及焦虑和内疚的衡量标准。发现了四个群体，其中两个是非精神病态的。然而，与理论一致的是，确定了两个具有明显高精神病态特征的不同青少年类别：一个是焦虑和内疚水平低于平均水平的主要变体，另一个是焦虑和内疚水平明显高于平均水平的次要变体。在被拘留者样本中，后者类别的青少年也表现出最高水平的精神病理学。在低焦虑精神病态变体中，男性与女性的比例为 2:1，而在高焦虑精神病态变体中，这一比例为 1:2。讨论了识别和治疗青少年精神病态变体的意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
