Development and validation of triarchic construct scales from the psychopathic personality inventory

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 447-461

  Hall, Jason R ^a   Drislane, Laura E ^b   Patrick, Christopher J ^b   Morano, Mario ^b   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^c   Poythress, Norman G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Development; Psychopathic personality inventory; Psychopathy; Triarchic model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLDNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISINHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEANNESS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRIARCHIC CONSTRUCT SCALE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84901845953     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035665     Document Type: Article

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