Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?

<p>Although Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) represents the closest diagnostic equivalent to psychopathy in the DSM-IV, it has long been recognized as failing to capture the full range of the construct. The current study examined the degree to which boldness, a trait domain within the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy (Patrick et al., 2009) that captures fearlessness, dominance, and low stress reactivity, represents a distinct difference between psychopathy and APD. Utilizing a sample of 108 male prison inmates, the current study examined the extent to which boldness, relative to meanness and disinhibition (indexed by the Triarchic Psychopathy measure; Patrick, 2010), accounted for incremental variance beyond APD symptom counts (indexed by the SCID-II APD module) in predicting the PCL-R total score. Hierarchical linear regression analyses were conducted in which the SCID-II APD symptom count was entered in the first step of the model, and the three Triarchic domains were entered in the second step. The results indicate that Boldness is a significant trait that helps to explain differences between APD and psychopathy. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Wall, Tina Dilem

• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Boldness
• Fearless Dominance
• Psychopathy
• Psychology

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2013 Tina Dilem Wall

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/143

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1142