The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and validation

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Future Research ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

While the term ‘‘psychopathy’’ is embedded with negativity, evidence points to the existence of another form of psychopathy, which involves adaptive traits such as stress and anxiety immunity, remarkable social skills, noteworthy leadership ability, and an absence of fear. The newly developed Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ) aims to assess adaptive traits known to correlate with the psychopathic personality. Validation of the questionnaire among 765 individuals from the community gave support to a 10-factor solution: Leadership, Logical Thinking, Composure, Creativity, Fearlessness, Money Smart, Focus, Extroversion, Consequentialism, and Management. The DAPTQ and its 10 subscales demonstrated good internal consistency reliability in a community sample (0.64 - 0.88). Good convergent and divergent validity was confirmed by administering the DAPTQ alongside established measures of the psychopathic personality. Subscales validation against well-established personality assessments further confirms the DAPTQ’s strength. These findings support the potential of the DAPTQ as an instrument for measuring psychopathy-associated adaptive traits. Limitations of the present study and potential directions for future research are also discussed. Further studies are needed to validate the DAPTQ and its subscales against a wider range of personality traits and behaviors.

The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and validation

10.7287/peerj.preprints.2081v3 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Durand

Keyword(s):

Community Sample ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Future Research ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and preliminary validation

10.7287/peerj.preprints.2081v1 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Durand

Keyword(s):

Clinical Sample ◽

Community Sample ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Future Research ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

Social Deviance ◽

In recent decades, psychopathic personality has become synonym to a pervasive personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, callousness, impulsivity, social deviance and aggressive behavior. However, evidences point to the existence of another form of psychopathy, which involves adaptive traits such as stress and anxiety immunity, remarkable social skills, noteworthy leadership ability, and an absence of fear. The newly developed Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ) aims to assess adaptive traits known to correlate with the psychopathic personality. Validation of the questionnaire among 765 individuals from the community gave support for a 4-factor solution within the DAPTQ: Extroverted Leading, Rational Thinking, Risk Taking, and Composure. The DAPTQ and its four subscales demonstrated high internal consistency in a community sample (0.78 - 0.88) and in a clinical sample (0.79 - 0.90). Good convergent and divergent validity was established by administering the DAPTQ alongside established measures of psychopathic personality. Subscales validation against well-established personality assessments further confirm the DAPTQ’s strength. These findings indicate that the DAPTQ is a reliable and valid tool for measuring psychopathy-associated adaptive traits. Limitations of the present study and potential directives for future research are also discussed. Further studies are needed to validate the DAPTQ and its subscales against a wider range of personality traits and behaviors.

The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and preliminary validation

10.7287/peerj.preprints.2081v2 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Durand

Keyword(s):

Community Sample ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Future Research ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

Preliminary Validation ◽

High Internal Consistency ◽

While the term ‘psychopathy’ is embedded with negativity, evidences point to the existence of another form of psychopathy, which involves adaptive traits such as stress and anxiety immunity, remarkable social skills, noteworthy leadership ability, and an absence of fear. The newly developed Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ) aims to assess adaptive traits known to correlate with the psychopathic personality. Validation of the questionnaire among 765 individuals from the community gave support for a 4-factor solution within the DAPTQ: Extroverted Leading, Rational Thinking, Risk Taking, and Composure. The DAPTQ and its four subscales demonstrated high internal consistency in a community sample (0.78 - 0.88). Good convergent and divergent validity was established by administering the DAPTQ alongside established measures of psychopathic personality. Subscales validation against well-established personality assessments further confirm the DAPTQ’s strength. These findings indicate that the DAPTQ is a reliable and valid tool for measuring psychopathy-associated adaptive traits. Limitations of the present study and potential directives for future research are also discussed. Further studies are needed to validate the DAPTQ and its subscales against a wider range of personality traits and behaviors.

A French Translation and Validation of the Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: An Investigation with Community Samples from France and Canada

10.20944/preprints201706.0063.v1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Durand

Keyword(s):

Convergent Validity ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

French Translation ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

French And English ◽

Valid Assessment ◽

Translation And Validation

This study presents a French translation and validation of the Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ), an instrument for assessing adaptive traits known to correlate with the psychopathic personality. Bilingual (French and English) individuals from France and Canada (N = 141, 52% in France, Mage = 29.73, SD = 9.09) completed both versions of the DAPTQ (French and English), alongside measurements of perceived stress, trait anxiety, authentic leadership and creativity. Correlation between the DAPTQ total and subscales across versions showed strong associations (r = .84 to .96). The DAPTQ – French version also demonstrated good internal consistency (α = .87), convergent validity, and concurrent validity. These findings support the cross-cultural equivalence of the DAPTQ and therefore its effectiveness as a valid assessment method of adaptive traits.

Using the HEXACO Model of Personality to Test the Validity of the Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire

10.20944/preprints201706.0065.v1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Durand

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Validity ◽

Factor Model ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Adaptive Traits ◽

Big Five Model ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Hexaco Model

Multiple studies reported a negative relationship between the Honesty-Humility factor of the HEXACO model and psychopathy. The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ), which was developed to assess adaptive traits known to be related to psychopathic traits, has previously demonstrate positive relationships with all factors of the Big Five Model, at the exception of a negative relationship with neuroticism. The current study aims to validate the previously reported association between the DAPTQ and the five major components of the personality, while also examining its relationship with the Honesty-Humility factor as defined by the HEXACO model. The results (N = 171) support the good internal consistency, two weeks test-retest validity and inter-correlation of the DAPTQ. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis further supports the nine-factor model of the DAPTQ. When compared to the HEXACO, the DAPTQ did not display any relationship with the Honesty-Humility factor, nor the Agreeableness and Openness factors, but kept its similar association to Emotionality, Extroversion, and Conscientiousness as initially reported in its development phase. Overall, the results support the discriminant validity of the DAPTQ to assess adaptive traits related to the psychopathic personality without overlapping with psychopathic personality traits. Results are discussed in terms of implications and further improvements to validate the DAPTQ.

Relationship between defense mechanisms and psychopathic traits in an Internet sample

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic ◽

10.1521/bumc.2021.85.3.271 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 85 (3) ◽

pp. 271-282

Author(s):

Sandra Weber ◽

William H. Gottdiener ◽

Cordelia Chou

Keyword(s):

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Community Sample ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Self Report ◽

The Internet ◽

Personality Profile ◽

Defense Style ◽

Defense Style Questionnaire ◽

Internet Sample

The authors compared the defense mechanisms used by a community sample of people with and without self-reported psychopathic traits. Defense mechanisms were assessed using the Defense Style Questionnaire-60 and psychopathy was assessed using the Levinson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale in a sample of 225 adults recruited on the Internet. Results found that people with self-reported psychopathy traits used significantly more immature and neurotic defense mechanisms than people without a psychopathic personality profile. All participants reported equal use of mature defenses.

Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Irrational Procrastination Scale: Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance Across Gender

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.768581 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Amy Shaw ◽

Jennifer J. Zhang

Keyword(s):

Measurement Invariance ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Dimensional Structure ◽

Future Research ◽

Chinese College Students ◽

Mainland Chinese ◽

The One ◽

Internal Construct Validity

The present paper reports on the preliminary validation of a Chinese version of Steel’s Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS). To this end, the nine items of the IPS were translated into Chinese and data were collected from a sample of 2,361 mainland Chinese college students. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine the dimensional structure of the IPS, and multigroup CFA (MG CFA) was carried out to evaluate the measurement invariance across gender. Results revealed that the Chinese IPS had adequate internal consistency reliability, adhered to the one-factor structure, and exhibited strong or scalar invariance across the two gender subgroups, thereby providing support for the internal construct validity of the scale. Additionally, the IPS scores were found to be strongly and negatively related to the Conscientiousness personality trait while showing weak correlations with the other traits, which provided some support for the convergent and divergent validity of the Chinese IPS. Study limitations and future research directions (e.g., expanding the empirical evidence for the scale’s criterion-related validity) are discussed.

Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a Sample of Pakistan’s University Students and Future Directions

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/00332941211016754 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003329412110167

Author(s):

Zane Asher Green ◽

Uzma Noor ◽

Farooq Ahmed ◽

Lubna Himayat

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychometric Validation ◽

Future Research ◽

Master's Students ◽

Future Directions ◽

Mean Differences ◽

Mental Well Being

This study determined the psychometric validation of the English version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S). Findings demonstrated robust psychometric properties for the FCV-19S. CFA results showed that the FCV-19S was a good model fit to the data in a sample of 608 university students. The FCV-19S also showed good concurrent validity, as it was significantly and positively related to the Preventive Behaviors related to COVID-19 Scale and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale as well as significantly and negatively related to the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. The scale also showed good internal consistency reliability. Further, the association of age with FCV-19S indicated that younger students experienced greater fear of COVID-19. The analyses of mean differences revealed that women as compared to men, bachelor’s and master’s students as compared to post-master’s students, and unemployed students as compared to employed students experienced greater fear of the outbreak. Also, those suffering from severe anxiety experienced greater fear of COVID-19 followed by those suffering from moderate, mild, and minimal anxiety. Moreover, knowing someone suffering from the coronavirus, being afraid that someone close might contract the virus, and believing that the current COVID-19 situation adversely affects academic performance were linked to higher levels of fear of the pandemic. Practice implications, limitations, and avenues for future research are also discussed.

Perceptions of inequality and intolerance “in the air”: Development and initial validation of the Diversity Climate Scale

10.31234/osf.io/auwhn ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jose Angel Soto ◽

Wei Wei ◽

Anna Salomaa ◽

Jasmine A. Mena ◽

Natalia Van Doren ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Community Sample ◽

Future Research ◽

Diversity Climate ◽

Perceptions Of Inequality ◽

Climate Scale

Diversity climate is associated with numerous outcomes across psychological, physical, and occupational domains. The Diversity Climate Scale (DCS) was created to measure diversity climate perceptions among individuals with diverse and complex social identities, with a range of importance ascribed to those identities, and across diverse contexts (proximal and distal environments). The DCS was constructed and examined across four separate studies. Study 1 presents the development of the scale, preliminary factor structure, and convergent validity. Studies 2 and 3 confirmed the factor structure of the DCS and established the convergent and divergent validity with increasingly generalizable samples. Study 4 extended these analyses with a community sample, examined the predictive validity of the measure, and demonstrated that favorable proximal and distal diversity climate differed significantly across groups with different constellations of marginalized identities and differences in the importance ascribed to those identities. When controlling for lifetime discrimination, perceiving a more positive proximal climate was consistently associated with decreased depressive symptoms and increased life satisfaction, while perceptions of distal climate interacted with proximal climate and discrimination to predict depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Applications of the DCS and considerations for future research are discussed.

The Peer Relationships of Youths With Psychopathic Personality Traits

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854807310159 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 212-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 65

Author(s):

Luna C. Muñoz ◽

Margaret Kerr ◽

Nejra Besic

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Peer Relationships ◽

Community Sample ◽

Psychopathic Traits ◽

Short Term ◽

High Conflict

Because a callous use of others in many short-term relationships is one criterion for diagnosing psychopathy in adults, one would expect adolescents who are high on psychopathic personality traits to have unstable, conflict-ridden peer relationships. Little is known about this, however, or about the peer activities of youths who are high in psychopathic traits. The authors examined relationship quality and delinquency with peers in a community sample of 12- to 15-year-old adolescents who were stably high or stably low on psychopathic traits during 4 years. Peers also provided data on relationship quality. Youths high on psychopathic traits often engaged in antisocial activities with their peers. Although they reported conflict in their peer relationships, their peers did not report low support or high conflict in those relationships. The authors conclude that youths with psychopathic traits have biased perspectives on interactions with close peers, and this might underlie future problems.