“…In contrast, at high levels of resilience, childhood traumatic experiences were unrelated with scores of psychopathic traits. Overall, these findings suggest that, in the absence of resilient characteristics, exposure to traumatic experiences during childhood are associated with personality traits that are fundamentally antagonistic and hostile (DeLisi, Drury, et al, 2021;Garofalo et al, 2019;Gillespie et al, 2023;Meloy, 1992;Schimmenti et al, 2015); potentially these traits may represent a maladaptive form of coping with the traumatic experience (Buck et al, 2012;Johansson et al, 2021;Klein Tuente et al, 2019;Meloy, 1992). Allowing for some degree of speculation about potential developmental pathways based on a cross-sectional snapshot, these findings suggest that resilience may buffer against the development of psychopathic traits, such that individuals who experience childhood traumatic experiences but possess average-to-high levels of resilience are less likely to develop psychopathic traits.…”