TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Using latent variable- and person-centered approaches to examine the role of psychopathic traits in sex offenders
JO  - Personality disorders
A1  - Krstic, Sonja
A1  - Neumann, Craig S.
A1  - Roy, Sandeep
A1  - Robertson, Carrie A.
A1  - Knight, Raymond A.
A1  - Hare, Robert D.
SP  - 207
EP  - 216
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
N2  - The current study employed both latent variable- and person-centered approaches to examine psychopathic traits in a large sample of sex offenders (N = 958). The offenders, who had committed a range of sexual crimes, had been assessed with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003). Structural equation modeling results indicated that the four-factor model of psychopathy (Hare, 2003; Neumann, Hare, & Newman, 2007) provided good representation of the dimensional nature of psychopathic traits across the sample of offenders, and that the PCL-R factors significantly predicted sexual crimes. In particular, the Affective and Antisocial psychopathy factors each predicted sexually violent crimes. Latent profile analysis results revealed evidence for a 4-class solution, with the subtypes showing distinct PCL-R facet profiles, consistent with previous research. The four subtypes were validated using sexual crime profiles. The prototypic psychopathy subtype (high on all 4 PCL-R facets) evidenced more violent sexual offenses than did the other subtypes. Taken together, the results demonstrate how variable- and person-centered approaches in combination can add to our understanding of the psychopathy construct and its correlates. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1949-2715
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000249
ID  - ref1
ER  -