Psychopathy and its Relations with Other Personality Disorders: An Extension of Findings in Two Distinct Samples
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Psychopathy and its Relations with Other Personality Disorders: An Extension of Findings in Two Distinct Samples
Yazar:
Klipfel, Kristen M., author.
ISBN:
9780438006799
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1 electronic resource (145 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: David S. Kosson Committee members: Carlo Garofalo; Kenneth Kessler; Steven Miller; John Murray.
Özet:
Very little is currently known about the relationships between ratings on psychopathy facets and scores on the personality disorders (PDs) found in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Only one previous study was identified that examined the partial correlations between ratings on psychopathy facet scores and scores on the 10 DSM-5 PDs in a sample of incarcerated male county jail inmates. The current study attempted to extend the research on psychopathy and other PDs by examining the unique and shared variance associated with psychopathy facets and DSM-5 PDs in two independent samples. Sample One was comprised of 284 United States male prisoners, and Sample Two was comprised of 168 European male forensic psychiatric patients. This study was designed to help determine the extent to which associations between psychopathy and other PDs reflected unique relationships between psychopathy and individual PDs or reflected the shared variance among the PDs. An additional set of analyses examined multivariate associations between dimensional scores of psychopathy facets and other PDs. In general, both the zero-order and partial correlations appeared to generalize across the three samples. Regarding zero-order correlations between the county jail sample and the prison sample, only 11 of 40 correlations proved different. When examining the partial correlations after controlling for ratings on psychopathy facets, there were 10 of 40 differences and 17 of 40 differences between relationships in the county jail and prison samples and between the county jail and forensic psychiatric samples, respectively. When examining the partial correlations after controlling for scores on PDs, there were six of 40 and eleven of 40 significant differences between relationships in the county jail and prison samples and between the county jail and forensic psychiatric samples. The greatest differences were for relationships between Cluster B PD symptom scores and ratings on psychopathy facets. When examining the shared versus unique variance between psychopathy facets and PDs, a majority of the relationships observed at the zero-order level were no longer significant when examining the unique relationships. Specifically, in the prison sample, of the 31 significant zero-order correlations, only 13 relationships were significant when controlling for ratings on psychopathy facets, and only 11 were significant when controlling for scores on PDs. In the forensic psychiatric sample, of the twenty significant zero-order correlations, eight were significant after controlling for ratings on psychopathy facets, and six were significant after controlling for scores on PDs. A few robust findings emerged when examining both sets of partial correlations in the prison sample and the forensic psychiatric sample. In all four of the partial correlations computed, relationships between Avoidant PD and ratings on the interpersonal facet were significant, and in three of the four partial correlations computed, relationships between scores on Histrionic and Narcissistic PDs and ratings on the interpersonal facet were significant. Similarly, relationships between scores on Antisocial PD and ratings on both the lifestyle and antisocial facets were significant for all four partial correlations computed for each facet. None of the partial correlations computed between scores on PDs and ratings on the affective facet were robust. In summary, current results suggest that a majority of these relationships are not simply a reflection of the unique variance between a PD score and a rating on a psychopathy facet, but rather, depending on the analysis employed, the shared variance among the psychopathy facets or among the PDs has a substantial impact on the significant relationships observed at the zero-order level.
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School code: 1489
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