Date of Award

January 2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Justin D. McDonald

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in investigating how psychopathic traits differ in Majority Culture non-criminal samples, relatively less attention has focused on how ethnic minorities differ in these psychopathic traits. The Psychopathic Personality Inventory- Revised (PPI-R) measures psychopathic personality traits. The PPI-R allows for easier data-gathering while increasing our understanding of common psychopathic personality tendencies.

The American Indian Bicultural Inventory - Northern Plains (AIBI-NP) is a 23 item, Likert scaled questionnaire yielding two subscale measures for cultural identification in two distinct, theoretically unrelated cultures. The AIBI-NP was normed on Northern Plains American Indians, who were represented in this study. The primary purpose of this study aims to expand the general knowledge of the eight PPI-R subscales, while also investigating the degree to which cultural identification might impact PPI-R scores. PPI-R scores were collected from 72 American Indian participants using different means to recruiting participants such as the University of North Dakota (UND) SONA Research Participation system, a tribal college in North Dakota, through flyers and word of mouth at the UND American Indian Student Services (AISS) and the annual Pow-Wow dance and ceremonies. Overall the results showed that cultural identification did not impact PPI-R subscale scores when the four groups scores were compared in the sample.

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