Further Validation of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory among Offenders: Personality and Behavioral Correlates
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.15.5.403.19202
Abstract
The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI; Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996) is a relatively new self-report measure that has shown considerable promise as an index of psychopathic traits in both nonoffender and offender samples. The present study examined the construct validity and predictive utility of the PPI by examining its association with theoretically relevant scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) among 60 male prison inmates, and its ability to predict institutional misbehavior in an expanded sample (n = 89). As expected, correlations with the PAI scales were highest for the Antisocial Features (ANT) and Aggression (AGG) scales (rs = .68 and .57, respectively). The PPI also predicted various forms of nonviolent and physically aggressive disciplinary infractions significantly better than chance (point biserial correlations ranging from .26 to .37).
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Personality Disorders, v. 15, issue 5, p. 403-415
Scholar Commons Citation
Edens, John F.; Poythress, Norman G.; and Watkins, M. Moninca, "Further Validation of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory among Offenders: Personality and Behavioral Correlates" (2001). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 110.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/110
