Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Theassessment of Psychopathic personality and its impact has been widely studied forensic concept. Psychopathy has been studied with other concepts such as crimes, aggression, violence, personality. Current study aimed to assess the relationship between psychopathy andpersonality traits. It also aimed to assess these variables with reference to demographic characteristics (age, gender). Two instruments were used Urdu Psychopathy Scale (Dil & Kazmi, 2016), NEO-FFI Urdu (Khan et al., 2013). A sample of 954 individuals were approached. Results revealed that psychopathy is positively related to neuroticism and extroversion and negatively related to agreeableness and conscientiousness. Age is negatively related to psychopathy. Significant gender differences exist with respect to psychopathy, neuroticism, agreeableness, extroversion and conscientiousness.
Institution: Hazara University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410469121