Identifying Careless Responding With the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised Validity Scales

Marcus, David K.; Church, Abere Sawaqdeh; O’Connell, Debra; Lilienfeld, Scott O.

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“…The current study examined data from a college student sample because most PPI-R studies have used college student samples. Marcus, Church, O'Connell, and Lilienfeld (2016) reported that of 77 published PPI-R studies, 48 assessed college students, 15 assessed community members, and only 14 of the samples were drawn from forensic populations. Given the extant literature, an IRT study of the PPI-R in college students may be useful to researchers.…”

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Item Response Theory Analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised

2017

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This study examined item and scale functioning in the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R) using an item response theory analysis. PPI-R protocols from 1,052 college student participants (348 male, 704 female) were analyzed. Analyses were conducted on the 131 self-report items comprising the PPI-R's eight content scales, using a graded response model. Scales collected a majority of their information about respondents possessing higher than average levels of the traits being measured. Each scale contained at least some items that evidenced limited ability to differentiate between respondents with differing levels of the trait being measured. Moreover, 80 items (61.1%) yielded significantly different responses between men and women presumably possessing similar levels of the trait being measured. Item performance was also influenced by the scoring format (directly scored vs. reverse-scored) of the items. Overall, the results suggest that the PPI-R, despite identifying psychopathic personality traits in individuals possessing high levels of those traits, may not identify these traits equally well for men and women, and scores are likely influenced by the scoring format of the individual item and scale.

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Item Response Theory Analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised

2017

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“…Although validity scales designed to identify inconsistent responding are increasingly available for self‐report psychopathy measures (e.g., Kelley et al, ; Mowle et al, ; Penson et al, ), only the Psychopathic Personality Inventory‐Revised (PPI‐R; Lilienfeld & Widows, ) and Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (Lynam et al, ) originally contained indicators of positive impression management (e.g., consciously or unconsciously portraying oneself in an unrealistically favorable light; Paulhus, ). Moreover, few studies have examined the utility of these scales in detecting problematic response styles on self‐report psychopathy measures (Anderson, Sellbom, Wygant, & Edens, ; Kelley et al, ; Marcus, Church, O'Connell, & Lilienfeld, ; Nikolova, Hendry, Douglas, Edens, & Lilienfeld, ).…”

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Self‐ and informant perceptions of psychopathic traits in relation to the triarchic model

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Journal of Personality

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“…Since this was not the case, one can only conclude that the VR scale was an inappropriate measure of self-deception in the current sample. Marcus et al (2018) reported that VR showed no moderating effect in the relation between the SI scale and the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (Patrick, 2010) in an undergraduate sample. In this study, the Cronbach's alpha was higher (α = .66) than in the current sample, but still insufficient.…”

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Exploring the predictive power of impulsivity measures in predicting self-reported and informant-reported inpatient disruptive behaviors

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Jong

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The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology

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Impulsivity is strongly associated with aggression and antisocial conduct. Although self-report measures are a time-efficient means to assess impulsivity, they may be susceptible to socially desirable responding, particularly in forensic psychiatry. The current study aimed to investigate the predictive validity of three measures of impulsivity in predicting self-and informantreported antisocial behavior: the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, the Self-Centered Impulsivity scale of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised and the general Disinhibition factor of the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory. Next, the mediating role of a measure of self-deception, the Virtuous Responding scale, was examined in these associations. Participants (N = 94) were inpatients from addiction care and forensic psychiatry. Two regression analyses were conducted using self-reported antisocial behavior in the first, and informant-reported antisocial behavior in the second analysis as outcome variables. In addition, a mediated regression analysis was conducted, using the Virtuous Responding scale as a mediator. The impulsivity measures showed a substantially lower predictive validity when informant-reported behavior was predicted. The Virtuous Responding scale appeared to be unreliable in the current sample and showed no mediation effect. The results showed insufficient support for the predictive validity of the three measures of impulsivity. Alternative time-efficient assessments for impulsivity are needed, such as informantbased measures.

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Identifying Careless Responding With the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised Validity Scales

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Item Response Theory Analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised

Item Response Theory Analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory–Revised

Self‐ and informant perceptions of psychopathic traits in relation to the triarchic model

Exploring the predictive power of impulsivity measures in predicting self-reported and informant-reported inpatient disruptive behaviors

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