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Validity of Factors of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in Female Prisoners

Discriminant Relations With Antisocial Behavior, Substance Abuse, and Personality

Patrick J. Kennealy

University of California, Irvine, pkenneal{at}uci.edu, cpatrick{at}umn.edu.

Brian M. Hicks

University of Minnesota

Christopher J. Patrick

University of Minnesota

The validity of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R) has been examined extensively in men, but its validity for women remains understudied. Specifically, the correlates of the general construct of psychopathy and its components as assessed by PCL-R total, factor, and facet scores have yet to be examined in depth. Based on previous research conducted with male o fenders, a large female inmate sample was used to examine the patterns of relations between total, factor, and facet scores on the PCL-R and various criterion variables. These variables include ratings of psychopathy based on Cleckley's criteria, symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, and measures of substance use and abuse, criminal behavior, institutional misconduct, interpersonal aggression, normal range personality, intellectual functioning, and social background variables. Results were highly consistent with past findings in male samples and provide further evidence for the construct validity of the PCL-R two-factor and four-facet models across genders.

Key Words: psychopathy • Psychopathy Checklist—Revised • female offenders • partialing • suppression

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Assessment, Vol. 14, No. 4, 323-340 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191107305882
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