Structural coherence and temporal stability of psychopathic personality features during emerging adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder characterized by affective, interpersonal, and behavioral dimensions. Although features of psychopathy have been extended downwardly to earlier developmental periods, there is a discerning lack of studies that have focused on critically important issues such as longitudinal invariance and stability/change in these features across time. The current study examines these issues using a large sample of male adolescent offenders (N = 1,170) assessed across 7 annual time points during the transition into emerging adulthood (ages ∼17 to 24 years). Findings demonstrated that features of psychopathy remained longitudinally invariant across this developmental period, and showed temporally consistent and theoretically coherent associations with other meas

SUBMITTER: Hawes SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4332526 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature