Department of Psychology & Philosophy.
Department of Health Sciences.
Psychol Assess. 2022 Oct;34(10):899-911. doi: 10.1037/pas0001158. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
The triarchic model of psychopathy posits that three distinct trait dispositions-disinhibition, meanness, and boldness-contribute to the interpersonal, affective, and impulsive-unrestrained features of this condition and is represented to varying degrees in all conceptualizations and measures of psychopathy. Using data for incarcerated males ( = 273) and females ( = 83) from 10 different prisons in Italy, we specified a latent variable model of the triarchic trait constructs in which scale measures of disinhibition, meanness, and boldness composed of items from the following inventories served as indicators: Triarchic Psychopathy Measure, Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form, and NEO Five Factor Inventory. A correlated three-factor solution evidenced adequate model fit, with individual triarchic trait scales loading strongly onto their target factors. The model exhibited comparable fit and factor loadings when specified using data for males only, and its factors showed expected relations with pertinent criterion variables, including measures of normative personality and clinical dysfunction along with staff ratings of prison behavior and release prognosis. Extending prior research with nonclinical participants from the U.S., present study results demonstrate the viability of a latent variable model of the triarchic traits in an incarcerated offender sample from a separate culture (Italy). The significance of this work lies in the potential of the triarchic traits to serve as conceptual-empirical points of reference for integrating findings across studies of psychopathy employing diverse samples and assessment measures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
三因素模型的精神变态假设，有三种不同的特质倾向——抑制解除、刻薄和大胆——有助于这种情况的人际、情感和冲动不受约束的特征，并且在所有精神变态的概念化和测量中都以不同程度表现出来。使用来自意大利 10 个不同监狱的被监禁男性（n=273）和女性（n=83）的数据，我们在三因素特质结构的潜在变量模型中进行了指定，其中由以下清单中的项目组成的抑制、刻薄和大胆量表测量作为指标：三因素精神变态量表、精神变态人格问卷修订版、明尼苏达多相人格问卷 2 重构形式和 NEO 五因素人格问卷。一个相关的三因素解决方案证明了模型具有良好的拟合度，个体的三因素特质量表强烈地加载到其目标因素上。当仅使用男性数据指定模型时，该模型具有类似的拟合度和因素负荷，其因素与相关的标准变量显示出预期的关系，包括规范人格和临床功能的测量，以及工作人员对监狱行为和释放预后的评估。本研究扩展了来自美国非临床参与者的先前研究，结果表明，在一个来自不同文化（意大利）的被监禁罪犯样本中，三因素特质的潜在变量模型具有可行性。这项工作的意义在于，三因素特质有可能作为参考点，将使用不同样本和评估措施研究精神变态的研究结果整合在一起。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
