Introduction
This 22-item checklist concerns interpersonal, emotional and behavioural features discussed in the early psychopathy-checklist literature. The items draw on a person's history as well as observations of their behaviour.
Professional checklist assessment uses interviews and records, not impressions formed from a few interactions. A label such as superficial charm requires a different evidence base from simply finding someone persuasive or disliking their behaviour.
The 22-item form should be distinguished from later checklist versions. It is a specialist topic rather than an everyday personality quiz. For describing your own broad personality preferences, the Big Five uses self-report statements about ordinary tendencies without asking for forensic judgements.
Instructions
Please mark present, unclear, or absent regarding each of the following personality traits or observed behaviors.
This is not a standard self-report test
Requires interview and collateral information
Scoring and result metrics
The result page reports a local screening score for this questionnaire. Use the score range, any subscale scores, and the interpretation band together rather than treating one number as a diagnosis.
- Score range
- 0-44
- Items scored
- 22
- Result indicators
- Total score / Interpretation band when available
Score interpretation bands
- 0-44Severity score
While there is no specific cutoff, higher scores indicate a greater likelihood of psychopathy.
Interpretation bands summarize screening thresholds from the questionnaire source material. Higher scores usually indicate more of the measured concern unless the tool notes a different scoring rule.
Tool information
- Version
- 22 questions
- Administration
- Clinician-rated
- Intended audience
- Trained forensic or clinical professionals evaluating adults with interview data, collateral records, and observed behavior; not for self-assessment
Sources
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