Psychopathic Personality Traits in Relation to Self-report Delinquency in Adolescence: Should We Mind About Interaction Effects?Show others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, ISSN 0882-2689, E-ISSN 1573-3505, Vol. 40, no 1, p. 69-78Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The aim of the present study was to investigate if interaction effects among Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) Grandiose-Manipulative (GM), Callous-Unemotional (CU), and Impulsive-Irresponsible (II) may add significant information in predicting self-reports of juvenile delinquent behavior among adolescents. A sample of 558 Italian high school students were administered the YPI and the Self-Reports of Delinquency Scale (SRDS) in order to evaluate interaction effects among YPI GM, CU, and II dimensions. Results showed a significant effect for a three-way interaction among the three YPI dimensions in predicting the SRDS total score, beta = .19, p < .01. In conclusion, the findings seem to underline that a three-factor model of psychopathy may help clinicians and researchers in predicting self-reported delinquency better than the individual factors.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2018. Vol. 40, no 1, p. 69-78
Keywords [en]
YPI, Psychopathy, GMtraits, CU traits, Delinquency, Interaction effects
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-66272DOI: 10.1007/s10862-018-9658-6ISI: 000427993800008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85043358754OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-66272DiVA, id: diva2:1194459
2018-04-032018-04-032018-04-03Bibliographically approved