Self-report psychopathy scales are increasingly used in research and practice despite criticisms that they may be susceptible to response distortion and bias. We assessed the utility of including the Virtuous Responding (VR) and Deviant Responding (DR) validity scales from the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R) for identifying underreporting and overreporting, respectively, on both the full and short-form versions of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP 4 and SRP-SF) in a pre/post experimental design. Using a sample of 384 male community members and a clinical comparison group of 99 males from a forensic outpatient program, we demonstrated that SRP scores were more susceptible to overreporting than underreporting, and that overreporting significantly and negatively affected convergent validity. Finally, baseline psychopathy scores were unrelated to successful response distortion (i.e., changing scores in correct direction while remaining undetected by the validity scales). It is recommended that assessments using self-report psychopathy scales consider including validity indices to detect response distortion. In doing so, it will be important to consider that general impression management may be conceptually distinct from specific forms of response distortion, such as the intentional amplification or minimization of psychopathic traits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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自我报告精神病量表 (SRP 4) 对反应失真的敏感性以及包括有效性指数以检测欺骗的效用。

自我报告精神病量表越来越多地用于研究和实践，尽管有人批评它们可能容易受到反应扭曲和偏见的影响。我们评估了包括精神变态人格量表修订版 (PPI-R) 中的良性反应 (VR) 和异常反应 (DR) 效度量表的效用，它们分别用于识别完整版和简短版的少报和多报。前/后实验设计中的自我报告精神病量表（SRP 4 和 SRP-SF）。使用 384 名男性社区成员的样本和来自法医门诊计划的 99 名男性的临床对照组，我们证明 SRP 分数更容易被高报而不是低报，并且高报显着且负面地影响了收敛效度。最后，基线精神病分数与成功的反应扭曲无关（即，在正确的方向上改变分数，同时保持未被有效性量表检测到）。建议使用自我报告精神病量表的评估考虑包括有效性指数以检测反应失真。这样做时，重要的是要考虑到一般印象管理可能在概念上不同于特定形式的反应扭曲，例如故意放大或最小化精神病特征。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。建议使用自我报告精神病量表的评估考虑包括有效性指数以检测反应失真。这样做时，重要的是要考虑到一般印象管理可能在概念上不同于特定形式的反应扭曲，例如故意放大或最小化精神病特征。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。建议使用自我报告精神病量表的评估考虑包括有效性指数以检测反应失真。这样做时，重要的是要考虑到一般印象管理可能在概念上不同于特定形式的反应扭曲，例如故意放大或最小化精神病特征。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。