title: Examining the Factor Structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Short-Form Across Four Young Adult Samples.
abstract: Psychopathy refers to a range of complex behaviors and personality traits, including callousness and antisocial behavior, typically studied in criminal populations. Recent studies have used self-reports to examine psychopathic traits among noncriminal samples. The goal of the current study was to examine the underlying factor structure of the Self-Report of Psychopathy Scale-Short Form (SRP-SF) across complementary samples and examine the impact of gender on factor structure. We examined the structure of the SRP-SF among 2,554 young adults from three undergraduate samples and a high-risk young adult sample. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a four-correlated factor model and a four-bifactor model showed good fit to the data. Evidence of weak invariance was found for both models across gender. These findings highlight that the SRP-SF is a useful measure of low-level psychopathic traits in noncriminal samples, although the underlying factor structure may not fully translate across men and women.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Hailey L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Dotterer
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waller
authors.affiliation: 2 University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Craig S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.affiliation: 3 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.affiliation: 3 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Erika E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Forbes
authors.affiliation: 4 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Ahmad R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Hariri
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Luke W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Hyde
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D017149:Private Sector; D011594:Psychometrics; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017150:Public Sector; D057566:Self Report; D015144:Southeastern United States; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: antisocial behavior; bifactor; gender; invariance; psychometric; sample