Abstract

In a study undertaken to examine the content validity of the French-language version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), a lexically-based conceptual model and clinical assessment of psychopathy, 204 French-speaking mental health professionals rated the symptoms covered by the CAPP for prototypicality. The majority of the symptoms were deemed to be “moderately” to “highly” prototypical of psychopathy. Of the model’s six domains, Dominance, Attachment and Self were considered more prototypical than Emotional, Behavioral and Cognitive. Results were consistent with those of other prototypicality studies. Descriptives analyses suggested that the ratings of English-speaking mental health professionals were higher than their French-speaking counterparts. However, the effect sizes were small according to the Cohen’s d analyses. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that Attachment was the only unidimensional domain. Finally, exploratory factor analysis yielded three factors—Egotism, Interpersonal rigidity, and Lack of responsibility. These factors were primarily underpinned by symptoms that entailed interpersonal and social cognitive traits.

摘要

在一项旨在检验法语版本的精神病态人格综合评估 (CAPP) 内容有效性的研究中，CAPP 是一种基于词汇的概念模型和精神病态临床评估，204 名讲法语的心理健康专业人士对精神病态人格综合评估所涵盖的症状进行了评估。 CAPP 的原型。大多数症状被认为是“中度”到“高度”精神病的典型症状。在该模型的六个领域中，支配、依恋和自我被认为比情感、行为和认知更具典型性。结果与其他原型研究的结果一致。描述性分析表明，英语心理健康专业人士的评分高于法语同行。然而，根据 Cohen 的d分析，效应量很小。验证性因素分析表明，依恋是唯一的一维领域。最后，探索性因素分析得出了三个因素——自我中心主义、人际僵化和缺乏责任感。这些因素主要是由涉及人际和社会认知特征的症状支撑的。