Psychopathic Trait Tendency Assessment (PTTA)
This evaluation measures an individual's potentially psychopathic personality traits. It measures four different clusters of acknowledged psychopathic traits, and has a scoring system to measure if an individual meets enough of the criteria to acknowledge how much their personality is affected by each cluster of psychopathy. The evaluation also makes the distinction between each cluster being a primary personality tendency or a secondary one if indeed an individual displays enough traits for a cluster on a consistent basis.
This test does not evaluate whether an individual is a psychopath or not. It simply measure how their personality measures up to researched psychopathic features. The criteria, thresholds, and clusters are derived from the works and research of Hare, Millon, and the DSM IV.
Scoring System
Each trait has a max score of 4. There is no "3" in the scoring system, due to the severity of difference of a pathological trait, and a learned and utilized trait due to environmental adaptation necessities.*
0 - manifests rarely if at all
1 - manifests occasionally
2 - manifests frequently
4 - is an ever-present pathological manifestation in the personality of the person and is rarely if ever not utilized
*Examples of this would be when a person lives in a life-situation where classically psychopathic traits are needed to survive and thrive. This usually applies to hostile or high-stress work-environments for the likes of soldiers, career criminals, police, emergency responders, doctors/nurses, et cetera.
PTTA Evaluation
Assign a score to each trait based on the scoring system above. Add up the total for each cluster.
Core Base Psychopathic Personality Traits
-Superficial usage of charm -1
-Drastically lower levels of fear and anxiety 1
-Lack of empathy 3
-Lack of remorse 1
-Underdeveloped emotions 3
-Lack of respect or understanding of social norms and morals 2
-Impersonal relationships with family, friends and lovers 2
-Shallow to nonexistent affect 4
-High levels of cunning, deception and manipulation 3
Primary Psychopath threshold 28+/36
Secondary Psychopath threshold 20-27/36
Core Antisocial Personality Traits
-High levels of apathy and lack of life goals 4
-Disregard and violation of the boundaries of others 1
-Recidivist criminality 1
-Low levels of impulse control 4
-Low tolerance for frustration 3
-Prone to violent outbursts 3
-Prone to parasitic relationships with friends, family, and lovers 2?
-Prone to indulgence of narcotics, alcohol, and other habit forming chemicals lol.. 4
-Sexual promiscuity - 2
Primary Antisocial threshold: 28+/36
Secondary Antisocial threshold: 20-27/36
Core Narcissistic Personality Traits
-Highly susceptible to criticism or praise 1
-Grandiose self-image 2
-Sense of entitlement 3
-Delusional and unrealistic goals 2
-Obsession with self 4
-Requires constant attention and prefers to be the center of it 0
-Easily and often jealous and angry 2
-Wants and feels they deserve "the best" of whatever they want or need 4
-Indulges in fantasy of wealth, power and fame 2
Primary Narcissist threshold: 28+/36
Secondary Narcissist threshold: 20-27/36
Core Sadistic Personality Traits
-Prone to use physical or psychological harm to achieve their goals 2
-Humiliates or demeans others 1
-Utilizes unusually harsh punishments and lessons 1
-Takes pleasure or is amused by viewing or participating in the harming of animals and or humans 1
-Usage of intimidation 4
-Restricts the autonomy of those closest to the person 3
-Highly interested weapons, violence and torture 1
-Views others as toys to be played with and discarded when bored 1
-Takes pleasure in terrorizing and inducing fear and panic in others 2
Primary Sadist threshold: 28+/36
Secondary Sadist threshold: 20-27/36
Each core personality type represents a cluster of traits typically associated with Psychopaths and their behavior. As these are personality clusters, some are usually represented more than others, but it is possible that an individual would score very high on all clusters, or possibly only high on one if they were somewhere in the psychopathic spectrum.
Each cluster has nine traits, and the thresholds are kept at levels that require a majority of points being pooled into each cluster.
Secondary represents that an individual not only represents most traits to a moderate degree, but has at least one that falls into the realm of pathological.
Primary represents that not only does an individual have most traits to a moderate degree, but that they have most to a pathological degree.
Thresholds are not meant to include or exclude the possibility that someone encompasses a personality cluster. For example, an individual with only three or four traits in a cluster to a pathological degree would probably be represented by the personality cluster, even if the other traits did not appear present or that noticeable. It is rare (but not impossible) than an individual would only have a few traits in a cluster at pathological levels, and not the rest, to at least achieve the Secondary status for that cluster.
