Table 2.
Personality Differences Between Female Psychopathy Subtypes and Control Prisoners
| MPQ-BF scale | Control (n =70) | Psychopathy Subtypes |
p values for Tukey’s post hoc comparisons |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary (n =31) | Secondary (n = 39) | Primary vs. Control | Secondary vs. Control | Secondary vs. Primary | ||
| Primary scale Well-Being | ||||||
| M | 50.9 | 48.6 | 48.9 | |||
| SD | 9.7 | 9.2 | 9.3 | |||
| d | .09 | -.15 | -.11 | |||
| Social Potency | ||||||
| M | 50.4 | 51.2 | 54.6 | .021 | ||
| SD | 7.7 | 8.5 | 7.8 | |||
| d | .04 | .13 | .51 | .54 | ||
| Achievement | ||||||
| M | 53.5 | 49.7 | 52.0 | |||
| SD | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.6 | |||
| d | .38 | -.03 | .21 | |||
| Social Closeness | ||||||
| M | 45.9 | 44.6 | 39.1 | .004 | ||
| SD | 10.9 | 10.4 | 7.9 | |||
| d | -.39 | -.53 | -1.21 | -.71 | ||
| Stress Reaction | ||||||
| M | 48.2 | 46.3 | 60.3 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 10.3 | 9.3 | 5.5 | |||
| d | -.18 | -.38 | 1.28 | 1.47 | 1.83 | |
| Alienation | ||||||
| M | 58.9 | 58.8 | 68.4 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 9.5 | 10.0 | 5.3 | |||
| d | .91 | .88 | 2.30 | 1.24 | 1.20 | |
| Aggression | ||||||
| M | 47.5 | 46.2 | 66.0 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 9.1 | 7.2 | 8.7 | |||
| d | -.26 | -.44 | 1.71 | 2.08 | 2.48 | |
| Control | ||||||
| M | 50.9 | 50.0 | 40.7 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 8.3 | 9.9 | 8.7 | |||
| d | .10 | .00 | -.99 | -1.20 | -1.00 | |
| Harm Avoidance | ||||||
| M | 50.5 | 51.6 | 47.9 | |||
| SD | 9.4 | 8.5 | 8.9 | |||
| d | .05 | .17 | -.22 | |||
| Traditionalism | ||||||
| M | 53.1 | 48.6 | 47.9 | .039 | .009 | |
| SD | 8.3 | 8.2 | 5.9 | |||
| d | .34 | -.15 | -.26 | -.55 | -.72 | |
| Absorption | ||||||
| M | 53.5 | 46.0 | 56.9 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 8.5 | 8.3 | 7.5 | |||
| d | .38 | -.44 | .78 | -.89 | 1.38 | |
| Higher-order scale Agentic-PEM | ||||||
| M | 53.0 | 50.1 | 53.2 | |||
| SD | 8.2 | 9.0 | 8.3 | |||
| d | .33 | .01 | .35 | |||
| Communal-PEM | ||||||
| M | 46.8 | 46.4 | 43.3 | |||
| SD | 10.5 | 11.0 | 7.5 | |||
| d | -.31 | -.34 | -.76 | |||
| Negative Emotionality | ||||||
| M | 52.2 | 51.1 | 69.6 | < .001 | < .001 | |
| SD | 11.3 | 11.0 | 4.9 | |||
| d | .21 | .10 | 2.49 | 2.00 | 2.17 | |
| Constraint | ||||||
| M | 52.1 | 49.7 | 43.7 | < .001 | .008 | |
| SD | 9.1 | 8.1 | 7.3 | |||
| d | .22 | -.03 | -.72 | -1.02 | -.78 | |
Note. MPQ-BF = Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire—Brief Form; PEM = Positive Emotionality. Personality scores are T scores scaled to the normative sample (i.e., M = 50, SD = 10). d = the standardized difference from the mean of the normative sample and can be interpreted as the effect size. The ds greater than .37 are in bold; this is the effect size needed to detect a significant difference between the primary psychopathy group and the normative sample at α = .05, two-tailed (Cohen, 1988). For post host tests, only protected p values < .05 are reported.