Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Assessment. 2021 Mar;28(2):429-445. doi: 10.1177/1073191120927786. Epub 2020 Jun 2.
The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) has emerged as a widely used measure for assessing a three-trait model of disinhibition, meanness, and boldness. Building on recent psychometric work, we examined the TriPM's item-level factor structure and correlates in both a clinically oriented community sample ( = 700) and in undergraduates ( = 527). Our results indicated a replicable three-factor structure generally corresponding with disinhibition, meanness, and boldness, although many items were not clear indicators of their assigned TriPM domain scales. Consequently, these dimensions may be better represented by Alternate Disinhibition (14 items), Boldness (13 items), and Meanness (8 items) domain scales. Additionally, we identified sets of items defining distinct Self-Assurance and Fearlessness dimensions within Boldness and Irresponsibility and Impulsivity dimensions within Disinhibition. We discuss these findings in the context of other recent studies examining the TriPM's item-level structure, highlighting key future directions for sharpening measurement of the externalizing spectrum.
三因素精神病态量表（TriPM）已成为评估抑制、卑鄙和大胆三种特质模型的广泛使用的量表。基于最近的心理测量学工作，我们在一个以临床为导向的社区样本（n=700）和本科生样本（n=527）中检查了 TriPM 的项目水平的因素结构和相关性。我们的结果表明，存在一个可复制的三因素结构，通常对应于抑制、卑鄙和大胆，尽管许多项目不是其指定的 TriPM 领域量表的明确指标。因此，这些维度可能可以通过替代抑制（14 个项目）、大胆（13 个项目）和卑鄙（8 个项目）领域量表更好地表示。此外，我们在大胆中的自信和无畏维度以及抑制中的不负责任和冲动维度内确定了定义不同的项目集。我们在其他最近研究的背景下讨论了这些发现，这些研究检查了 TriPM 的项目水平结构，强调了进一步明确测量外显谱的关键方向。
