Psychopathy and interpersonal functioning in a university sample: A hierarchical perspective using the comprehensive assessment of psychopathic personality: A registered report.

Psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) is a widely recognized disorder that has been associated with high levels of dysfunction across clinical, forensic, occupational, and social settings. The psychopathy construct displays robust connections to social and interpersonal dysfunction; however, research investigating these associations thus far largely relies on total or domain-level scores. This study aimed to employ a higher degree of abstraction to examine associations between psychopathy symptoms and various interpersonal outcomes at different levels of the psychopathy trait hierarchy.

Personality-based assessment of psychopathy: Comparison of the comprehensive assessment of psychopathic personality and the elemental psychopathy assessment.

Psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) is a widely researched construct characterized by severe dysfunction in affective, interpersonal and behavioral domains. Inconsistencies across different theoretical formulations and operationalizations have major implications for research and practice. Two separate personality-based perspectives of psychopathy have been proposed, one anchored within the influential five factor model (FFM) of personality and the comprehensive assessment of psychopathic personality (CAPP) model, which was specifically designed as an inclusive concept map of PPD.

Factor structure of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) in community and offender samples.

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) is a recent operationalization of the CAPP model, which conceptualizes psychopathy in terms of 33 symptoms that can be thematically organized according to six theoretical domains. The current study examined the higher order factor structure of the CAPP-SR symptom scales in community, university, and offender samples derived from three separate countries. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) indicated that a three-factor model (Antagonism/Meanness, Disinhibition, and Fearless Grandiosity) was optimal in a large population-representative U.