The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP) is a brief self-report measure of psychopathy with promising utility for assessment of psychopathy across contexts. This chapter first reviews studies that have undertaken psychometric analyses of the LSRP to identify the optimal factor structure and evaluate construct validity in a variety of populations. Second, it outlines how the LSRP has been used by researchers to develop a better understanding around cross-cultural issues, emotional dysfunction, and moral identity and reasoning in psychopathy. The LSRP holds promise in measuring psychopathic personality traits in a manner that can contribute to our understanding of psychopathy across contexts, including both successful and unsuccessful psychopathy, given its utility across institutionalized and noninstitutionalized populations. The LSRP has also been quite useful in contributing important knowledge about the psychopathy construct. The LSRP has shown that it functions similarly across different countries and populations, including in studies in East Asia, which have otherwise not been prevalent in psychopathy research. The LSRP has also been used to further extend our conceptual understanding of emotional dysfunction and moral identity and reasoning in the psychopathic personality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)