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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… with psychopathy. It was anticipated that psychopathic traits would be positively associated with an undesirable family history and also with higher levels of aggression. However, it is unclear whether family function mediates the relationship between psychopathy and aggression. …
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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… with psychopathy. It was anticipated that psychopathic traits would be positively associated with an undesirable family history and also with higher levels of aggression. However, it is unclear whether family function mediates the relationship between psychopathy and aggression. …
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Validity Study of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Noncriminal Population
<p>The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a self-report measure which was created by Lilienfeld and Andrews (1996) to identify the personality traits of psychopathy in noncriminal populations. These personality traits were grouped into eight subscales in the PPI including Machiavellian …
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Developing measures of psychopathic personality traits from the international personality item pool
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Psychology, 2009
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Psychometric Properties of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Non-criminal Population
<p>The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a self-report measure which was created to identify the personality traits of psychopathy in noncriminal populations. These personality traits were grouped into eight subscales in the PPI including Machiavellian Egocentricity, Social Potency, …
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Psychopathic Personality Traits as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Intelligence and Relational Aggression
… used hierarchical multiple regression to examine psychopathic personality traits as a potential moderator of the predicted relationship between relational aggression and social intelligence in a college student sample (N = 274). As predicted, psychopathic traits moderated the relationship between …
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The problematic dual objective of Psychopathic Personality Disorder: A study of in-school rule-breaking behaviour
… This thesis aims to challenge the way in which Psychopathic Personality Disorder is defined and understood. There is a major emphasis on PPD’s ability to predict (and some argue explain) criminal behaviour, which leads to a heterogeneity of individuals labelled with PPD and confusion about the …
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Elaborating Borderline and Psychopathic Personality with the Computerized Adaptive Test of Personality Disorder in a Female Correctional Sample
<p>Most of what we know about Psychopathic Personality Disorder (PPD) is based upon research with males. Considerably less research has examined female manifestations of the construct, however, some research suggests that Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may represent a female phenotypic …
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Visual attention to emotional stimuli in individuals high on psychopathic traits: Evidence from eye tracking
… examine how non-incarcerated individuals high on psychopathic personality traits process emotions. Additionally, eye-tracking technology was used to provide a more fine-grained assessment of attention. In contrast to hypotheses, the high psychopathic group did not differ from the low psychopathic …
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Emotional Behavior in Subclinical Psychopathy
… of individuals who fall on the so-called ‘psychopathic spectrum’ have been regularly documented since Cleckley’s observations (1941). The literature reflects the importance of understanding individuals who have high and low levels of psychopathic personality traits for research (Lilienfeld, …
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Climbing the corporate ladder: desired skills and successful psychopaths
… career advertisements using Wexler’s (2008) Psychopathic Personality Dimensions and Positively Reinforced Corporate Labels. Results demonstrated that corporations are seeking out characteristics that are synonymous to Factor 1 psychopathic personality traits, which could increase the …
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Pathways of Psychopathic Traits to Aggression Through Affective Correlates
… dysregulation in the relationship between psychopathic personality traits and aggression within an undergraduate sample. The project addresses three gaps in research – how psychopathic personality traits relate to empathy facets from a recently developed measure of empathy (Affective and …
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Responses to adversity in childhood: The effect of sex on attachment style and personality disorder traits
… the indirect effects of childhood adversity on personality disorder traits through attachment style, 2) examine the effect of biological sex on the relationship between adversity and attachment, and adversity and personality disorder traits and, 3) examine how personality disorder traits can be …
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A Mediacentric Examination Of The Corporate Psychopath
<p>The psychopathic personality disorder is an extraordinarily complex and multidimensional phenomenon. While its study has primarily focused on criminal and forensic populations, many researchers are broadening the scope of psychopathy research to include those in the corporate world. This, after …
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PPI-R: Factor Structure in a Diverse Subclinical Sample
… examining the factor structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R) has yielded mixed results. This study attempted to examine the three proposed factor structures (one-, two-, or three-) for the PPI-R utilizing a mixed gender undergraduate sample. Results …
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Psychopathy and Gender of Serial Killers: A Comparison Using the PCL-R.
… expressed between the genders. In this study, psychopathic personality traits are considered in a sample comparison of male and female serial murderers. Traits are measured using questions derived from Hare's Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R, 1991). A content analysis was performed to score …
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Predicting Behavior from Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Traits in a Student Sample.
<p>Psychopathic personality is associated with a myriad of social and behavioral problems including violence, criminal activity, and overall failure to conform to social standards. In this study, psychopathic and antisocial personality traits are measured in a sample of college students via …
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An examination of the underlying trait structure of psychopathy: applications for screening and measurement
… protocol for the assessment of core psychopathic personality traits. The framework developed will, as best as possible, be free of sample bias. The Self-and Informant-report Deviant Personality Screen (DPS) is introduced and a series of empirical studies are conducted to examine the …
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