Relations between self-serving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, and antisocial behavior in a non-clinical sample of adolescents》.pdf

Personality and Individual Differences 51 (2011) 887–892 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepag e: www.elsevier.c om/locate/paid Relations between self-serving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, and antisocial behavior in a non-clinical sample of adolescents Henri Chabrol a,⇑, Nikki van Leeuwen a, Rachel F. Rodgers a,b,c, John C. Gibbs d a CERPP, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, France b LST, Université de Toulouse-3, 170 Avenue de Casselardit, 31059 Toulouse, France c Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA d The Ohio State University, 1835 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The aim of the present study was to assess the relative contributions self-serving cognitive distortions Received 10 February 2011 and psychopathic traits to adolescent antisocial behavior. Participants were 972 high-school students Received in revised form 1 July 2011 who completed self-report questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that self- Accepted 5 July 2011 serving cognitive distortions, psychopathic traits, as well as their interaction term were significant Available online 8 September 2011 predictors of antisocial behavior in both genders after adjustment for the main other cognitive, psycho- pa