Carroll Grace A, Montrose V Tamara, Burke Tom
School of Psychology, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Independent Researcher, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 30;12:656299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656299. eCollection 2021.
Social cognition is the ability to identify, understand, and interpret mental states and emotions. Psychopathic traits are typically described in two ways; Primary: shallow affect, emotional detachment, and relationship difficulties, and Secondary Psychopathic Traits: antisocial traits, impulsiveness, and emotional dysregulation. People with high psychopathic traits tend to perform lower on measures of social cognition. This study investigated the relationship of social cognition (mentalising) to primary and secondary psychopathic traits in a non-clinical sample, and investigated the psychometric properties of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) Short Forms (A and B). A community-based male sample ( = 1,000; age range 18-78) was recruited through an online platform. Psychopathic traits were measured using Levenson, Kiehl, and Fitzpatrick's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and stratified into Primary and Secondary Psychopathic traits. Secondary validation of the RMET Short Forms was completed investigating scale reliability, and validity. Findings suggest excellent psychometrics in a large community cohort for the RMET Short Forms (A and B), with significant negative correlations on social cognitive performance and high self-report psychopathy. The item valence within the social cognitive measure (positive, negative, and neutral affect stimuli) was also examined, and correlated significantly with both Primary and Secondary Psychopathic traits. This study provides further validation of the RMET Short Forms (A and B), and adds to the literature on the scale by investigating performance on short-form specific valence. This study further suggests that in a non-clinical community sample of males, that higher psychopathic traits correlated significantly, and negatively, with social cognitive performance.
社会认知是识别、理解和解释心理状态及情绪的能力。精神病态特质通常以两种方式描述：原发性：情感浅薄、情感疏离和人际关系困难；继发性精神病态特质：反社会特质、冲动性和情绪失调。具有高精神病态特质的人在社会认知测量中的表现往往较低。本研究调查了非临床样本中社会认知（心理化）与原发性和继发性精神病态特质之间的关系，并研究了《读心术眼测试》（RMET）简版（A和B）的心理测量特性。通过在线平台招募了一个以社区为基础的男性样本（n = 1000；年龄范围18 - 78岁）。使用莱文森、基尔和菲茨帕特里克的自我报告精神病态量表测量精神病态特质，并将其分为原发性和继发性精神病态特质。完成了RMET简版的二次验证，调查了量表的信度和效度。研究结果表明，RMET简版（A和B）在一个大型社区队列中具有出色的心理测量学特性，在社会认知表现和高自我报告精神病态方面存在显著负相关。还检查了社会认知测量中的项目效价（积极、消极和中性情感刺激），并与原发性和继发性精神病态特质均显著相关。本研究进一步验证了RMET简版（A和B），并通过调查简版特定效价的表现为该量表的文献增添了内容。本研究进一步表明，在一个非临床社区男性样本中，较高的精神病态特质与社会认知表现显著负相关。
