ترجمة وتقنين مقياس سمات الشخصية السيكوباتية لدى عينة من المجتمع السعودي

Abstract EN

The current study aims to translate and validate the psychopathic personality traits scale with a sample of Saudi society, to examine the level of psychopathic personality traits among the study sample, and to identify the differences in the psychopathic personality traits according to gender, age, marital status, educational qualification, income, and region of residence.

The study was carried out on a random sample of (3317) Saudi individuals; aged is (18) years and more.

The study adopted the descriptive approach.

The researchers used a demographic questionnaire and the Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale developed by Boduszek (2016).

The results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the Fit Index Comparative (CFI = .90), the Goodness of Fit Index (GFI = .97), the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation value (RMSEA=.04), which indicates that the scale has good construct validity, as well as a high-Reliability Coefficient (a=0.736).

The results also showed a low level of psychopathic personality traits among the study sample.

There are statistically significant differences in the psychopathic personality traits between males and females in favor of males.

In addition, there are statistically significant differences between individuals according to age in favor of the age group (18-29) with the exception of the dimension of (cognitive responsiveness).

The results also showed that there are statistically significant differences between married and unmarried individuals in psychopathic personality traits in favor of married individuals.

Finally, there are statistically significant differences between individuals according to educational qualification and income level in all dimensions of the scale with the exception of the dimension of (cognitive responsiveness) in favor of individuals (no income) and those with income (less than 5000).

It was also clarified that there are statistically significant differences between individuals according to region residence in the dimensions of (emotional responsiveness) and (egocentricity) among individuals in favor of individuals from the Riyadh region, while there are no statistically significant differences between individuals in the two dimensions of (cognitive responsiveness) and (interpersonal manipulation).