The Emotion Mechanism Study Of Psychopathic Adolescents

Psychopathy as a kind of personality disorder that displays in emotion, interpersonal relationship, lifestyle, anti-social behavior and so on.It have been found that psychopathic adolescents have the same construction with the psychopathic adult, and the trait of the psychopathy will continue to adult. Many studies on psychopathy have been studied in the early 19th century, but psychologists in China have paid a little attention on psychopathy, this paper gave a detailed summary on the concept of the psychopathy, the description of psychopathic trait, the emotion mechanism theory and the methods of the psychopathy.In this paper, using the Psychopathic Questionnaire Survey on 489 adolescents and from the boys selecting the pschopathics and nonpsychopathics as the experiment subjects to achieve these aims:(1)To test the fitness of the pschopathic model in the adolescent group by revised the western method of the psychopathy(LSRP)scale, then can provide a further foundation for understanding the psychopathy personality;(2)By using the affective priming to reveal the important function of the attention deficit in the psychopathic adolescents to arousing affections.Results reveal that:(1)Adolescent boys are more fitter the psychopathic personality model than the girls, adolescent boys are prone to manifest psychopathic personality.(2)The LSRP scale have been proved reliable and valid to adolescent boys.(3)There are no significantly difference affective priming effect between pschopathic and nonpsychopathic subjects towards negative and positive pictures in the classical affective priming experiment, but the affective priming effect towards negative pictures are significantly higher than the positive pictures between the two groups.(4)In negative affective priming experiment, nonpsychopathic subjects have obvious negative affective priming effect toward negative and positive pictures, but psychopathic subjects have none. There is a large different between them on the negative priming effect, but only towards the negative pictures are significantly different between them ,the negative affective priming effect towards positive pictures are nearly significantly different.