Pechorro Pedro, Baptista Makilim N, Bonfá-Araujo Bruno, Nunes Cristina, DeLisi Matthew
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2024 Feb 9:306624X241228234. doi: 10.1177/0306624X241228234.
The Light Triad of personality refers to three prosocial personality traits-Faith in Humanity, Humanism, and Kantianism-that promote the worth and dignity of other people, focus on ethical behavior and empathy, and confidence that other people are naturally good. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Light Triad Scale (LTS)-Portuguese version. Our convenience sample consisted of 242 male and female participants ( = 30.19 years, = 12.78, range = 16-77) from Portugal. The proposed latent structure models of the LTS obtained adequate fits. Internal consistency/reliability, as measured by the alpha and omega coefficients, was adequate to good. Construct validity with other psychometric measures (i.e., empathy, dark traits of personality, propensity to morally disengage, and antisociality/criminality measures) and criterion-related validity (with justice involvement variables such as problems with the law, arrested by the police, sentenced to prison and alcohol/drug abuse variables) were demonstrated. Cross-gender measurement invariance was established, with females scoring higher than males. The findings support the use of the LTS as a valid and reliable measure.
人格的光明三元组指的是三种亲社会人格特质——对人性的信念、人文主义和康德主义，这些特质提升他人的价值和尊严，关注道德行为和同理心，以及相信他人本质上是善良的。本研究的目的是检验光明三元组量表（LTS）葡萄牙语版本的心理测量特性。我们的便利样本包括来自葡萄牙的242名男性和女性参与者（平均年龄=30.19岁，标准差=12.78，年龄范围=16 - 77岁）。所提出的LTS潜在结构模型拟合良好。以α系数和ω系数衡量的内部一致性/可靠性良好。证明了与其他心理测量指标（即同理心、人格黑暗特质、道德脱离倾向和反社会性/犯罪性指标）的结构效度，以及与标准相关的效度（与司法参与变量，如法律问题、被警方逮捕、被判刑入狱以及酒精/药物滥用变量）。建立了跨性别测量不变性，女性得分高于男性。研究结果支持将LTS作为一种有效且可靠的测量工具使用。
