posted on 2022-06-16, 10:16authored byAgata Debowska, Daniel Boduszek, Katie Dhingra, Nicole Sherretts, Dominic WillmottDominic Willmott, Matt DeLisi
Although psychopathy construct (Self-Report Psychopathy Scale–Short Form [SRP–SF]) was assessed among various samples, prior research did not investigate whether the model proposed by Hare and colleagues can be used to capture psychopathy scores derived from forensic and nonforensic populations. The main objective of the current study was to test dimensionality, construct validity, and factorial invariance of the SRP–SF within prison (n = 730) and student (n = 2,506) samples. Our results indicate that the SRP–SF measure cannot be used in the same way within forensic and nonforensic samples, which may be due to the inclusion of criminal/antisocial traits as an integral part of psychopathy.
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Deviant Behavior. Agata Debowska, Daniel Boduszek, Katie Dhingra, Nicole Sherretts, Dominic Willmott & Matt DeLisi (2018) Can We Use Hare’s Psychopathy Model within Forensic and Non-Forensic Populations? An Empirical Investigation, Deviant Behavior, 39:2, 224-242, DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2016.1266887. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.