Journal of Personality Disorders, 29, 2015, 182 © 2015 The Guilford Press 1 From Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (P. S. B., A. T. P.); Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (C. J. P.); University of Montana, Missoula, Montana (K. M. O.); and University of California, Santa Barbara (J. A. G.). Address correspondence to Pavel S. Blagov, PhD, 345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA 99326. E-mail: blagovp@whitman.edu TRIARCHIC PSYCHOPATHY MEASURE: VALIDITY IN RELATION TO NORMAL-RANGE TRAITS, PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT Pavel S. Blagov, PhD, Christopher J. Patrick, PhD, Kathryn M. Oost, MA, Joshua A. Goodman, MA, and Alan T. Pugh, BA The triarchic model of psychopathy replaces a syndromal view of this pathological personality condition with a tripartite trait-based concep- tion, positing three distinct phenotypic dispositions as building blocks for what theorists have traditionally termed psychopathy. The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) offers an eficient means for measuring the three dimensions to facilitate research on the model’s validity. We tested the reliability of the TriPM as well as its convergent and discriminant validity with respect to differing models of personality and other criterion variables relecting social-emotional adjustment and mental health in an undergradu- ate participant sample (n = 120). The TriPM evidenced excellent internal consistencies, good test-retest reliability, and strong validity consistent with the triarchic model. We discuss the results with respect to prior research and offer suggestions for future research on the validity of the TriPM and the triarchic model. Based on the triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009), the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM; Patrick, 2010) was developed to capture three distinct phenotypic dimensions: disinhibition, meanness, and bold- ness. We review research on its validity, drawing attention to the less consistent indings, and present tests of its internal and test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity vis-à-vis an original set of validation measures. Boldness relects tendencies toward fearlessness, adventure seeking, social dominance, and low stress reactivity (Patrick et al., 2009), and it relates closely to fearless-dominance (Benning, Patrick, Hicks, Blonigen, & Krueger, 2003). By facilitating glibness, it may enable highly psychopathic individuals to appear well adjusted (as described by Cleckley, 1982). Disinhibition, as the tendency not to constrain behavior in the context of activation by appetitive pursuit or anger, may facilitate irresponsibility, poor planning, impulsivity, and angry G4361_182.indd 1 2/13/2015 11:11:40 AM