TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - An Exploration of the Relationship Between Criminal Cognitions and Psychopathy in a Civil Psychiatric Sample JO - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology A1 - Magyar, Melissa A1 - Carr, William Amory A1 - Rosenfeld, Barry D. A1 - Rotter, Merrill SP - 865 EP - 877 VL - 54 IS - 6 N2 - The relationship between psychopathy and thinking styles that support and maintain a criminal lifestyle is examined using the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; Hart, Cox, & Hare, 1995) and the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS; Walters, 1995). These measures are administered to a sample of 75 patients recruited from a state psychiatric hospital in the northeastern United States. Correlational analyses indicate that the PICTS General Criminal Thinking, Self-Assertion/Deception factor scale, and several criminal thinking style scales are significantly related to psychopathy. The significantly associated criminal thinking scales include Entitlement (r = .44) and Superoptimism (r = .43) with Factors 1 and 2 of the PCL:SV, respectively. Multiple regression analyses reveal that these two criminal thinking scales are the strongest predictors of Factors 1 and 2 of the PCL:SV, respectively. Implications for the cognitive basis of the construct of psychopathy, as well as potential treatment interventions, are discussed.

LA - SN - 0306-624X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X09344105 ID - ref1 ER -