Comparison of Personality Traits Between Psychopathic Prisoners,Non-Psychopathic Prisoners, and Non-Prisoner Patients

Background: research in the field of personality has tried to recognize themaintraits that reflect the building blocks of personality. for instance, personality dimensions, especially the five-factor model, deals with the field of personality disorder, especially the psychopathic personality disorder. objectives: the purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the personality traits of psychopathic prisoners, nonpsychopathic prisoners, and non-prisoner patients separated by gender in tehran. methods: this descriptive-comparative study was conducted on 355 participants including 202 male prisoners, 105 female prisoners, and 48 non-prisoner patients. all the participants filled out the hare psychopathy checklist and the revised neuroticism- extraversion-openness five-factor inventory. the data were analyzed by the pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis, one-way analysis of variance (one-way anova), and scheffe’s post hoc test. results: the results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between psychopathy and extraversion and a significant negative relationship between psychopathy and openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness in male prisoners. the relationships were significant at the level of 0.1. conclusions: by comparing male psychopathic and non-psychopathic prisoners, female psychopathic and non-psychopathic prisoners, and non-prisoner non-psychopathic patients, it was found that psychopathic prisoners had lower levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness than the other groups.