title: Assessing the external correlates of alternative factor models of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-short form across three samples.
abstract: This study investigated various theoretically relevant correlates of a short form of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI; Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996) using archival data from large undergraduate, foster care, and juvenile offender samples. External correlates of the 2 primary scales (PPI-I and PPI-II) and the Coldheartedness subscale were for the most part consistent with prior findings. Analyses for an alternate factor model in which the Fearlessness subscale loaded onto PPI-II (rather than PPI-I) resulted in relatively few substantial changes to the pattern of correlations with criterion measures, but a third factor that included the Coldheartedness and Carefree Nonplanfulness subscales functioned differently than Coldheartedness alone in these data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA.
authors.forename: Shannon Toney
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Edens
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Vaughn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008923:Missouri; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015206:Southwestern United States; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult