The Triarchic model (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) posits that psychopathy consists of three elements: Boldness, Meanness, and Disinhibition. Drislane et al. (2015) recently derived scales from the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI; Andershed, Kerr, Stattin, & Levander, 2002) to assess these traits. The initial validation efforts appeared promising, but researchers have yet to evaluate these scales among justice-involved youth. The current study examines the validity of the YPI-Triarchic scales in an archival sample of 928 male adolescent offenders and tests whether the new scales provide information incremental to the original YPI. The YPI-Triarchic scales were strongly correlated with original YPI scales (rs = .56-.96), and some associations were contrary to predictions and previous findings about the Triarchic model (e.g., YPI-Boldness was not inversely related to symptomatology). Thus, caution is warranted when attempting to study the Triarchic model with the YPI-Triarchic scales.

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在涉及司法的青年样本中，青年精神病性状量表（YPI）-三级量表和YPI的比较。

三重模式（Patrick，Fowles，＆Krueger，2009）认为，精神病由三个要素组成：大胆，卑鄙和禁忌。Drislane等。（2015年）最近从青年精神病性状量表（YPI； Andershed，Kerr，Stattin和Levander，2002）得出的量表来评估这些特征。最初的验证工作似乎很有希望，但是研究人员尚未评估涉及司法的年轻人的这些量表。当前的研究在928名男性青少年犯罪者的档案样本中检验了YPI-Triarchic量表的有效性，并测试了新量表是否为原始YPI提供了增量信息。YPI-Triarchic量表与原始YPI量表密切相关（rs = .56-.96），并且某些关联与有关Triarchic模型的预测和先前发现相反（例如，YPI-Boldness与症状学无负相关。因此，在尝试使用YPI-Triarchic量表研究Triarchic模型时，应谨慎行事。