Pechorro Pedro, DeLisi Matt, Gonçalves Rui Abrunhosa, Maroco João
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2021 Dec 5;29(6):871-888. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2021.1995519. eCollection 2022.
Self-control and psychopathy are correlated with antisocial behaviors among diverse samples, and a spate of recent studies examined their direct associations with criminal outcomes. However, research has largely overlooked mediation effects between psychopathy, self-control and deviant outcomes. The current study examined self-control mediation effects related to the triarchic psychopathy construct and juvenile delinquency, crime seriousness, conduct disorder (CD), and aggression outcomes. The sample consisted of = 567 ( = 15.91 years, = 0.99, range = 14-18 years) southern-European youth from Portugal. Study design was cross-sectional, quantitative and non-experimental. Mediation analysis using path analysis procedures indicated that low self-control mediates the relation between the Boldness, Disinhibition and Meanness factors of the triarchic psychopathy construct and the delinquency, crime seriousness, CD and aggression outcomes. Findings suggest that self-control is a mediator of triarchic psychopathic features and diverse externalizing behavior outcomes, which adds specificity to their interrelationship as general predictors of antisocial behavior.
自我控制和心理变态与不同样本中的反社会行为相关，最近一系列研究考察了它们与犯罪结果的直接关联。然而，研究很大程度上忽略了心理变态、自我控制和偏差结果之间的中介效应。本研究考察了与三元心理变态结构以及青少年犯罪、犯罪严重程度、品行障碍（CD）和攻击结果相关的自我控制中介效应。样本包括来自葡萄牙的567名（平均年龄=15.91岁，标准差=0.99，年龄范围=14 - 18岁）南欧青少年。研究设计为横断面、定量且非实验性的。使用路径分析程序的中介分析表明，低自我控制在三元心理变态结构的大胆、抑制解除和冷酷无情因素与犯罪、犯罪严重程度、品行障碍和攻击结果之间起中介作用。研究结果表明，自我控制是三元心理变态特征和各种外化行为结果的中介，这为它们作为反社会行为的一般预测因素的相互关系增添了特异性。
