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Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2/2014

01-06-2014

Higher Levels of Psychopathy Predict Poorer Motor Control: Implications for Understanding the Psychopathy Construct

Auteurs: Michael D. Robinson, Konrad Bresin

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 2/2014

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Abstract

A review of the literature suggests that higher levels of psychopathy may be linked to less effective behavioral control. However, several commentators have urged caution in making statements of this type in the absence of direct evidence. In two studies (total N = 142), moment-to-moment accuracy in a motor control task was examined as a function of dimensional variations in psychopathy in an undergraduate population. As hypothesized, motor control was distinctively worse at higher levels of psychopathy relative to lower levels, both as a function of primary and secondary psychopathy and particularly their shared variance. These novel findings provide support for the idea that motor control systematically varies by psychopathy, in a basic manner, consistent with views of psychopathy emphasizing lesser control.
vorige artikel The Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Behavioral and Academic Adjustment in Children: Further Validation of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits
volgende artikel Assessing the Key to Effective Coaching in Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: The Therapist-Parent Interaction Coding System
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Aiken and West (1991) advocate standardizing continuous predictors in multiple regression analyses and Robinson (2007) extends such considerations to the GLM. Using non-standardized personality scores can result in erroneous findings involving the repeated-measures variable (here, anticipated noise condition), though will not alter the main effects for psychopathy that are reported (Maxwell and Delaney 2004). This is because z-scoring does not alter the shape of the distribution for a continuous predictor (Maxwell and Delaney 2004). Thus, for example, participants’ untransformed primary psychopathy scores correlated at r = 1 with their z-scored primary psychopathy scores.
 
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Separate GLMs for primary and secondary psychopathy were performed to examine whether each form of psychopathy, as an independent entity, predicted motor control. Entering both forms of psychopathy simultaneously would eliminate their common variance and the consequences of doing so are saved for a subsequently reported multiple regression.
 
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Participants were not probed for awareness of the possible influence of the manipulation on motor control. When we have probed for awareness using similar “dual task” instructions in the past, people have not spontaneously mentioned that one task involved some sort of condition difference (i.e., a manipulation) that might affect what they were subsequently asked to do.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Higher Levels of Psychopathy Predict Poorer Motor Control: Implications for Understanding the Psychopathy Construct
Auteurs
Michael D. Robinson
Konrad Bresin
Publicatiedatum
01-06-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-013-9388-8

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