Structural models of personality traits, particularly the five-factor model (FFM), continue to inform ongoing debates regarding what personality attributes and trait domains are central to psychopathy. A growing body of literature has linked the constructs of the triarchic model of psychopathy (boldness, meanness, disinhibition) to the FFM. Recently, researchers developed both item and regression-based measures of the triarchic model of psychopathy using the NEO Personality Inventory–Revised—a popular measure of the FFM. The current study examines the correlates of these two FFM-derived operationalizations of the triarchic model using data from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study. The two approaches had strong convergent validity coefficients and similar patterns of criterion-related validity coefficients. Meanness related to greater personality pathology characterized by exploitation of others and poor attachment, whereas disinhibition related to indicators of greater negative affect and poor behavioral constraint. Boldness related to reduced negative affect and greater narcissistic personality traits. Although the item and regression-based approaches showed similar patterns of associations with criterion-variables, the item-based approach has some practical and psychometric advantages over the regression-based approach given strong correlations between the meanness and disinhibition scores from the regression approach.

人格特质的结构模型，特别是五因素模型（FFM），继续为正在进行的关于哪些人格属性和特质领域是精神病的核心的辩论提供信息。越来越多的文献将精神病态的三元模型（大胆、卑鄙、去抑制）与 FFM 联系起来。最近，研究人员使用 NEO Personality Inventory-Revised（一种流行的 FFM 测量方法）开发了基于项目和回归的精神病三元模型测量方法。目前的研究使用来自协作纵向人格障碍研究的数据检查了这两个 FFM 衍生的三元模型操作化的相关性。这两种方法具有很强的收敛效度系数和相似的标准相关效度系数模式。卑鄙与以剥削他人和不良依恋为特征的更大人格病理学有关，而去抑制与更大的负面影响和不良行为约束的指标有关。大胆与减少负面影响和更大的自恋人格特征有关。尽管基于项目和回归的方法显示出与标准变量相似的关联模式，但鉴于回归方法的均值性和去抑制分数之间的强相关性，基于项目的方法比基于回归的方法具有一些实际和心理测量优势。大胆与减少负面影响和更大的自恋人格特征有关。尽管基于项目和回归的方法显示出与标准变量相似的关联模式，但鉴于回归方法的均值性和去抑制分数之间的强相关性，基于项目的方法比基于回归的方法具有一些实际和心理测量优势。大胆与减少负面影响和更大的自恋人格特征有关。尽管基于项目和回归的方法显示出与标准变量相似的关联模式，但鉴于回归方法的均值性和去抑制分数之间的强相关性，基于项目的方法比基于回归的方法具有一些实际和心理测量优势。