The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and preliminary validation
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- Subject Areas
- Cognitive Disorders, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire, Adaptive personality, Psychometric properties, Psychopathic personality
- Copyright
- © 2016 Durand
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. The Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire: development and preliminary validation. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2081v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2081v2
Abstract
While the term ‘psychopathy’ is embedded with negativity, evidences point to the existence of another form of psychopathy, which involves adaptive traits such as stress and anxiety immunity, remarkable social skills, noteworthy leadership ability, and an absence of fear. The newly developed Durand Adaptive Psychopathic Traits Questionnaire (DAPTQ) aims to assess adaptive traits known to correlate with the psychopathic personality. Validation of the questionnaire among 765 individuals from the community gave support for a 4-factor solution within the DAPTQ: Extroverted Leading, Rational Thinking, Risk Taking, and Composure. The DAPTQ and its four subscales demonstrated high internal consistency in a community sample (0.78 - 0.88). Good convergent and divergent validity was established by administering the DAPTQ alongside established measures of psychopathic personality. Subscales validation against well-established personality assessments further confirm the DAPTQ’s strength. These findings indicate that the DAPTQ is a reliable and valid tool for measuring psychopathy-associated adaptive traits. Limitations of the present study and potential directives for future research are also discussed. Further studies are needed to validate the DAPTQ and its subscales against a wider range of personality traits and behaviors.
Author Comment
The manuscript was updated in several ways. The article now concentrates on community samples, and cluster analyses have been replaced by correlational analyses. Furthermore, a new study further assessing the validity of the DAPTQ and its subscales has been added.