The Association Between Psychopathic Personality Traits and Victimization and Exposure to Violence in a Sample of Saudi Arabian Youth

Beaver, Kevin M.; Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Said; Kobeisy, Ahmed Nezar; Alqurashi, Fathiyah H.; Connolly, Eric J.; Schwartz, Joseph A.

doi:10.1007/s11126-015-9383-1

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“…These findings, however, are somewhat mixed. For example, research on predictors of victimization have found that psychopathy and the Dark Triad are significant direct predictors but low self-control is not (Beaver, Al-Ghamdi, Kobeisy, Alqurashi, Connolly, & Schwartz, 2016; Flexon, Meldrum, Young, & Lehmann, 2016), that both psychopathy and low self-control (impulsivity) are significant predictors (DeLisi, Tostlebe, Burgason, Heirigs, & Vaughn, 2018), and that low self-control is a significant predictor but callous-unemotional traits and narcissism are not (Fanti & Kimonis, 2013). We seek to advance this literature by using the dominant FFM model in the field of psychology to better understand traits that increase victimization risk.…”

Section: Low Self-control the Big Five And Victimizationmentioning

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Personality and Adolescent School-Based Victimization: Do the Big Five Matter?

Kulig

Cullen

Wilcox

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Journal of School Violence

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Self-control has provided a useful framework for understanding both offending behavior and victimization risk. As a theory of victimization, research has established that low self-control is directly related to victimization risk beyond a range of other factors. This finding raises the issue of whether other personality traits are associated with an increased risk of victimization. Using a sample of ninth-grade adolescents (N = 2,912) from the Rural Substance Abuse and Violence Project (RSVP), we tested whether the Big Five Inventory (BFI) of personality traits predicted adolescent school-based victimization above and beyond low self-control and rival explanations of victimization. The results indicate that, after controlling for risky behaviors, school attachment, and low self-control, neuroticism is positively related to victimization. This finding suggests that examining traits other than low self-control is important to capture fully what makes someone vulnerable to crime. Further, we consider the theoretical and policy implications of the findings.

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Section: Low Self-control the Big Five And Victimizationmentioning

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Personality and Adolescent School-Based Victimization: Do the Big Five Matter?

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Journal of School Violence

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“…21 Πρόσθετες αναλύσεις σε εφήβους αποκάλυψαν ότι δύο παράμετροι: (α) η αντίληψη των γεγονότων της ζωής τους και (β) η έκθεση σε παραβατικές συμπε ριφορές με τους συνομηλίκους, είχαν σχέση με την προσωπική τους θυματοποίηση. 22 Οι έφηβοι με χα μηλή αυτοεκτίμηση είναι ευάλωτοι σε επιρροές από συμμαθητές τους με ψυχοπαθητικά χαρακτηριστικά, συγκεκριμένα, απάθειασυναισθηματική ψυχρότητα (callousunemotional traits) και αίσθημα μεγαλείου ικανότητα χειραγώγησης (grandiosemanipulative traits). 23,24 Η εκδήλωση αυτών των χαρακτηριστικών σχετίζεται με την παιδική κακοποίηση και αποτελούν σημαντικό κίνδυνο για την ανάπτυξη και περαιτέρω εκδήλωση συμπεριφορών υψηλού κινδύνου, όπως η έχουν όμως ιστορικό χρήσης αλκοόλ (88,3%), κάνναβης και ναρκωτικών ουσιών.…”

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“…Φαίνεται πως στον πληθυσμό των κρατουμένων εί ναι υψηλά τα ποσοστά γονεϊκής βίας ή βίας μεταξύ του γονεϊκού ζεύγους, γεγονός που προκύπτει γενι κότερα από τα βιβλιογραφικά δεδομένα, χωρίς αυτά τα στοιχεία να συσχετίζονται ειδικά με κάποια κατη γορία εγκλημάτων. [15][16][17][18][19]21,22 Οι περισσότεροι από τους μισούς συμμετέχοντες είχαν κακές σχολικές επιδόσεις και διαπληκτισμούς με τους συμμαθητές τους, ενώ στο 25,3% είχαν υ ποστεί σχολική κακοποίηση. Το 41,9% των συμμετε χόντων ήταν οι ίδιοι κακοποιητές.…”

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Prisoners in Greek prisons: Correlation of demographic and psychosocial data with committed crimes

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Previous literature shows an association between several psychosocial factors or life events in general and delinquency. Factors such as gender, cannabis and drugs use are firmly connected to delinquency. Similarly, interpersonal violent behavior appears to be more frequent in people with lower socioeconomic status and people with lower education. The association of these factors with the violent or non-violent crimes, especially in Greek research literature, is very limited. The present study is an attempt to examine in a Greek prison population the correlation of demographic and psychosocial factors with violent and non-violent crime. The prison population sample comprised of 308 males from a total of 1300 prisoners, aged between 18 and 77 years old. The survey was conducted from January 2012 until August 2013 in Korydallos and Domokos prisons. In our prison population sample most of the crimes were non-violent. The prisoners were urban dwellers, of young age, were not married and were in short-term relationships on average. They had completed their military obligations, were not live alone, and have been working in the last six months before being imprisoned, in manual labor. They had low-grade education and poor school achievements, had been brawling with classmates and had history of antisocial behavior (liked to "put fire" and abuse animals). They report good relationships with their parents; however, they had experienced violence in parental relationships and some kind of violence, mainly by the father and secondarily by the mother. They have not been involved in gangs necessarily and have a history from a young age, of alcohol, cannabis and drugs use. Cannabis use history was reported by 208 prisoners (67.5%) and 133 (63.9%) of them started using at the age of 10-15 years old. A total of 179 prisoners (58.5%) reported a history of drug use, about half of them (50.3%) reported being addicted to a combination of drugs. For 40.8% (n=73) drug use was initiated in the age of 10-15 years old, while the largest percentage (46.4%) of prisoners mentioned as starting age 16-20 years old. Although the above features underline the great differences between prison population and the general population, there are no significant associations of these factors with violent or non-violent crime. However, the prisoners with drug use history were 65% less likely to have been sentenced for violent crime. Also, the prisoners exempted from their military duties, were 49% less likely to have committed violent crime.

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“…The survey design, content, data collection plans, and overall research project were reviewed and approved by the institutional review board at King Abdulaziz University. Further information about data collection methods and generalizability of the sample can be found in previously published reports (Beaver et al, 2015a(Beaver et al, , 2015b.…”

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“…In contrast to many Western industrialized societies that have prioritized funding data collection projects aimed at monitoring human developmental patterns among citizens, such information is scarce in Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia. Only recently has Saudi Arabia begun to fund efforts aimed at collecting and analyzing data on young Saudi citizens (see, e.g., Beaver et al, 2015aBeaver et al, , 2015bSacarellos et al, 2015). Given the paucity of social research in Saudi Arabia, not much is known about the prevalence, heterogeneity, and potential subclass structure of antisocial behavior among youth in Saudi Arabia.…”

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Identifying Latent Classes of Antisocial Behavior Among Youth From Saudi Arabia

Connolly

Al-Ghamdi

Kobeisy

et al. 2016

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Despite the wealth of knowledge on subclass formation for antisocial behavior among youth from the United States and other Western industrialized countries, very little is known about the subclass structure for antisocial behavior among youth growing up in other geographical contexts. Using validated measures of aggression, psychopathy, and low self-control, we employ latent class analysis to identify latent subgroups of antisocial behavior from a sample of 324 Saudi Arabian youth. Three classes of antisocial behavior emerged and significant associations between latent class membership and different forms of delinquency were observed. The findings are the first to show a similar pattern of latent class formation for antisocial behavior and risk for violent and nonviolent delinquency among Saudi Arabian youth compared to U.S. youth.

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The Association Between Psychopathic Personality Traits and Victimization and Exposure to Violence in a Sample of Saudi Arabian Youth

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Personality and Adolescent School-Based Victimization: Do the Big Five Matter?

Personality and Adolescent School-Based Victimization: Do the Big Five Matter?

Prisoners in Greek prisons: Correlation of demographic and psychosocial data with committed crimes

Identifying Latent Classes of Antisocial Behavior Among Youth From Saudi Arabia

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