Citation

Kimonis ER, Skeem JL, Cauffman E, Dmitrieva J. Law Hum. Behav. 2011; 35(5): 381-391.

Affiliation

Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MHC 2639, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA, ekimonis@fmhi.usf.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1007/s10979-010-9243-3

PMID

20703785

Abstract

There is growing support for the disaggregation of psychopathy into primary and secondary variants. This study examines whether variants of psychopathy can be identified in a subsample (n = 116) of juvenile offenders with high scores on the Youth Version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL:YV). Model-based cluster analysis of offenders' scores on the PCL:YV and a measure of anxiety suggested a two-group solution. The derived clusters manifested expected differences across theoretically relevant constructs of abuse history, hostility, and psychiatric symptoms. Compared with low-anxious primary variants, high-anxious secondary variants manifested more institutional violence, greater psychosocial immaturity, and more instability in institutional violence over a 2-year period, but similar stability in PCL:YV scores.

Language: en