Examining the Factor Structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Short-Form Across Four Young Adult Samples
Year: 2016
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Psychopathy refers to a range of complex behaviors and personality traits, including callousness and antisocial behavior, typically studied in criminal populations. Recent studies have used self-reports to examine psychopathic traits among noncriminal samples. The goal of the current study was to examine the underlying factor structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Scale-Short Form (SRP-SF) across complementary samples and examine the impact of gender on factor structure. We examined the structure of the SRP-SF among 2,554 young adults from three undergraduate samples and a high-risk young adult sample. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a four-correlated factor model and a four-bifactor model showed good fit to the data. Evidence of weak invariance was found for both models across gender. These findings highlight that the SRP-SF is a useful measure of low-level psychopathic traits in noncriminal samples, although the underlying factor structure may not fully translate across men and women.
Source: Assessment
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1189403160, G1282257372, G1826168685, G4817635158, G4868588771, Pathways to Early-and Late-Starting Antisocial Behavior, Substance Use in Young Men: Genes, Brain Function and Early Social Development, G7379464712, Self-Regulation Failure: Identifying and Modifying a Risk Phenotype, Quantifying Individual Differences in Midlife Structural Brain Integrity Associated with Later AD/ADRD Risk
OpenAlex ID: W2325334115