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.
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