Abstract: The present research tested the dimensionality and cross-cultural differential item functioning of the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; Paulhus et al., 2021) in samples of university students (total N = 804) from Italy (N = 268), ...
Abstract: The “Dirty Dozen” is a popular, brief, self-report scale to capture individual differences in the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). While the scale has good psychometric properties, there ...
Aetiology and life-course of conduct disorder in childhood: Risk factors for the development of an antisocial personality disorderSummary:Objectives: Conduct disorders are among the most common disorders encountered in child and adolescent psychiatry. ...
The impact of emotional stimuli on working memory in female delinquent juvenilesSummary:Objective: This paper focuses on the objective to what extent detained girls exhibit deficits with respect to spatial working memory. Moreover, this study ...
Psychopathy, temperament and antisocial behaviour in girlsObjective: This study addresses the question whether temperament and character differ between antisocial incarcerated girls with and without psychopathy. Furthermore, it inquires whether this ...
Epidemiological data on personality dimensions in the psychopathy of adolescent boys and girls – results of the Cologne GAP StudyObjective: This paper evaluates epidemiological data on psychopathy dimensions among adolescents. Method: The Psychopathy ...
ADHD and conduct disorders – trends in the German-speaking countriesSince 2009 trends in research and practice have been described for externalising disorders (ADHD and conduct disorders) in the German-speaking countries. In particular, publications of ...
Does the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) identify a clinically relevant subgroup among young offenders?Abstract.Objective: Does the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory identify one or more high-risk ...
Ein negatives Erziehungsverhalten, besonders inkonsistentes Verhalten und ein geringes elterliches Engagement, gelten als wichtige Risikofaktoren für aggressives Verhalten von Kindern. Im Zusammenhang mit affektiven Auffälligkeiten, wie Affektarmut und ...
Application of Schema Therapy in ForensicsAbstract.Personality disorders are frequent among forensic populations. Cluster B disorders are generally associated with an increased risk of re-offending and even more so if, in addition, the criteria for ...
From «Psychopathy» to «Personality Disorder» – Conceptual History of a Problematic Field within PsychiatryAbstract. The issue of personality disorders addresses fundamental questions of psychiatry: Is there a clear boundary between normal behaviour and ...
The German Version of the “Psychopathic Personality Inventory” (PPI) - psychometric properties and validation of the authorized German versionAbstract. Psychopathy is the most relevant predictor for an individual prognosis of delinquency. Until now, ...
The Dirty Dozen and the Naughty Nine: Short scales for the assessment of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathyWhen assessing personality dimensions, potentially negative characteristics are often given little attention. However, they are of ...
Construct Validity and Factor Structure of the German Version of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) in a Representative School SampleAbstract. The present study examined the construct validity and factor structure of the German version of the ...
Zusammenfassung. Das Psychopathiekonzept wird zunehmend häufiger auch bei Kindern und Jugendlichen diskutiert. Es zeigt sich, dass Kinder mit Psychopathiemerkmalen schwerwiegenderes und vielfältigeres aggressiv-dissoziales Verhalten zeigen. Durch die ...
Personality disorders in adolescence: Controversy and perspectivesThe focus of this paper was to illustrate the recent controversy on personality disorders in youth and to outline trends for the German speaking countries in research and clinical practice ...
PsychopathyDuring the past years the conceptual design “Psychopathy” has been specified for childhood and adolescence. It offers the chance to describe and classify extreme forms of aggressive-dissocial behavior. Phenotypes, prevalence rates, and follow-...
The psychopathy concept in girls: A conceptual issueThe present study examines the validity of the psychopathy concept in delinquent girls and addresses the question of the extent to which differences between girls with psychopathy traits and girls ...
Validation of the German translation of the Psychopathy Personality Inventory (PPI)Abstract.Background: There is no German-language self-report instrument for the personality construct “psychopathy”. The Psychopathy Personality Inventory (PPI) (...
Assessment of Psychopathic Traits in Criminals: Internal Consistency and Differential Validity of the German Version of the PPI-R in Forensic Inpatients and PrisonersThe Psychopathic Personality Inventory Revised (PPI-R) has so far only been validated in ...
Summary: Hare's Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991) was originally constructed for use among males in correctional and forensic settings. In this study, the PCL-R protocols of 36 matched pairs of female and male violent offenders were ...
The adolescent Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) and its child version (YPI-CV) are sound but lengthy instruments for measuring psychopathic traits in youths. The current study develops psychometrically strong short versions of these instruments. ...
The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is a clinician rating instrument for psychopathic personality disorder. Although the instrument is routinely used in forensic assessment in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, data on its psychometric properties in ...
The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and its screening version, the PCL:SV, are clinical assessment instruments for the observer rating of psychopathic personality in offenders. Given the link between PCL-R/SV total scores and violent offending, ...
Abstract. The Child Problematic Traits Inventory (CPTI) is a new teacher rated instrument to assess psychopathic personality traits in children. This is the first study to test the psychometric properties of the Dutch CPTI. Teachers ...
Abstract. The Inventory of Callous and Unemotional Traits (ICU) was developed to measure callous-unemotional (CU) psychopathic traits in children and adolescents. Studies that have examined the factor structure of ICU showed considerable ...
Abstract. The aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the Spanish teacher-rated Child Problematic Traits Inventory (CPTI) in two community samples of 3- to 12-year-old children. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) ...
Abstract. Psychopathy is a primary risk factor of re-offending in sexual offenders. Conceptually, both variable-centered (e.g., factor analysis) and clustering methods (e.g., latent profile analysis) have been used in previous research. ...
Abstract. The structure, correlates, and assessment of the Dark Triad are widely discussed in several fields of psychology. Based on the German version of the Short Dark Triad (SDT), we add to this by (a) providing a competitive test of ...
Abstract. The present study examined the nomological network of the Short Dark Tetrad scale (SD4). The SD4 measures narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. We translated the original English SD4 into German and used an ...
This study compares the performance, when identifying negative emotions on facial expression, of male offenders (n = 62) with a high level of psychopathy (n = 25) with other criminals with a low level of psychopathy (n = 37), as well as other “successful ...
Abstract. The link between psychopathy and violence has been well documented. Estimates suggest psychopathic offenders are responsible for as much as 40% of violence-related crime, and that they show rates of violent recidivism up to five ...
Abstract. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of an intimate partner and is a widespread, international public health crisis. An important proximate risk factor for IPV perpetration is the ...
The focus of this article is on (1) the possible influence of childhood hyperactive behavior on adult psychopathy, and (2) how adult, clinically rated, psychopathy tendencies are related to self-reported personality. The sample comprised 152 male subjects,...
The Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) are linked to individual differences in empathy, but what we know about these connections is limited to unidimensional or bidimensional conceptualizations of empathy and to ...
Abstract. Although previous research has demonstrated a link between personality and thieving, research has not yet considered individual differences in impulsivity and the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) ...
Abstract. Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy are personality traits understood to be dispositions toward amoral and antisocial behavior. Recent research has suggested that sadism should also be added to this set of traits. In ...
Abstract. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between the personality traits of the Dark Triad, the moral judgment level, and the students’ disciplinary choice. It was hypothesized that students who major in ...
Abstract. In samples from America, Brazil, and Hungary (N = 937), we examined the associations between the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) and individual differences in excitement (i.e., valuing personal enjoyment),...
Abstract. The Dirty Dozen scale is a short measure developed to assess the Dark Triad traits, namely Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, which has previously shown good psychometric properties. The aim of this study was to validate a Spanish ...
Abstract. Earlier research suggested that militant extremists could have certain aspects of psychopathic and psychotic characteristics. Relying on these studies, we investigated whether the Militant Extremist Mind-Set (MEM) could be explained by ...
Abstract. The Dark Triad is a constellation of three antisocial personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Recently, researchers have introduced a “Dark Tetrad” that includes subclinical sadism, although others suggest ...
Abstract. The present study attempts to locate the Dark Triad traits within the space of the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits Model. The study was conducted on a sample of 339 adolescents (48.2% females) in Poland, which were administered the ...
Abstract. Personality traits have been long recognized to have a strong impact on human decision-making. In this study, a sample of 314 participants took part in an online game to investigate the impact of psychopathic traits on cooperative behavior in ...
Abstract. This study provides initial insights on the relation between psychopathic traits (disinhibition, meanness, and boldness) and academic fraud (prevalence and severity), while considering important mediators of fraud (perceived ...
Abstract. The dark triad of personality (D3) – consisting of psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism – is a set of socially aversive personality traits. All three traits encompass disagreeable behavior and a particular disregard for ...
The research on violent female offending has focused primarily on homicide, particularly on women in abusive relationships who kill their victimiser. The present article is based on five empirical studies presented as a doctoral thesis. The aim was to ...
Abstract. We tested the psychometric properties of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen measure of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism in Portugal (n = 1,034) and Spain (n = 386). Adult (M = ...