title: Are secondary variants of juvenile psychopathy more reactively violent and less psychosocially mature than primary variants?
abstract: There is growing support for the disaggregation of psychopathy into primary and secondary variants. This study examines whether variants of psychopathy can be identified in a subsample (n = 116) of juvenile offenders with high scores on the Youth Version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL:YV). Model-based cluster analysis of offenders' scores on the PCL:YV and a measure of anxiety suggested a two-group solution. The derived clusters manifested expected differences across theoretically relevant constructs of abuse history, hostility, and psychiatric symptoms. Compared with low-anxious primary variants, high-anxious secondary variants manifested more institutional violence, greater psychosocial immaturity, and more instability in institutional violence over a 2-year period, but similar stability in PCL:YV scores.
authors: Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. ekimonis@fmhi.usf.edu
authors: Eva R
authors: ER
authors: Kimonis
authors: Jennifer L
authors: JL
authors: Skeem
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Cauffman
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Dmitrieva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009511:New England; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*