Development and validation of triarchic psychopathy scales from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 838-851

  Brislin, Sarah J ^a   Drislane, Laura E ^a   Smith, Shannon Toney ^b   Edens, John F ^b   Patrick, Christopher J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire; Psychopathy; Triarchic model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TEMPERAMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISONERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940107238     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000087     Document Type: Article

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