RT Article
T1 Triarchic Model of Psychopathy and Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Study on the Italian Community
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 39
IS 7/8
SP 1448
OP 1472
A1 Sica, Claudio
A1 Caudek, Corrado
A1 Bottesi, Gioia
A1 Colpizzi, Ilaria
A1 Malerba, Anna
A1 Patrick, Christopher J.
A2 Caudek, Corrado
A2 Bottesi, Gioia
A2 Colpizzi, Ilaria
A2 Malerba, Anna
A2 Patrick, Christopher J.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882928903
AB Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and recurrent phenomenon in many societies with severe physical and psychological consequences. In the present study, we aimed to explore the role of triarchic dimensions of psychopathy (disinhibition, boldness, and meanness) across gender in this occurrence. A questionnaire on inflicted (self) and experienced (partner) IPV and the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure were administered to a sample of 1,149 individuals from the Italian community. In general, self and partner IPV were moderately correlated. Bayesian regression analysis showed that disinhibition was positively correlated to both self and partner IPV (psychological and physical). In addition, boldness was negatively associated with perpetrated psychological IPV. Interactions by gender showed that meanness was positively related to perpetrated IPV in women (psychological and physical), whereas men with disinhibition features inflicted more physical violence than women. A high externalizing tendency (i.e., disinhibition) is therefore an important correlate of both perpetrated and reported IPV; moreover, boldness was associated with less psychological violence in general, whereas the effect of meanness depended on the gender of the individuals involved. Interestingly, the association between IPV and self-reported delinquent activities was low in magnitude (Spearman’s Rho around .20) suggesting limited overlap between these two constructs.
K1 manipulativeness
K1 externalizing features
K1 Gender
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
K1 Triarchic model of psychopathy
DO 10.1177/08862605231207620