Psychopathy and personality contributions to bullying and cyberbullying behaviors.

Abstract

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by issues in the interpersonal, affective and behavioral areas. The controversial about his etiologi and growing fascination by population makes of psychopathy a relevant subject in society with several consecuences for those who suffer it. To young population, psychopathy has been related with antisocial behavior, specially with bullying and cyberbullying (Orue & Andershed, 2015). In the current study, we explore the factorial structure and reliability of YPI-S to asses psychopathy in spanish youths as well as look into relations with personality Big Five, bullying and cyberbullying and how psychopathic traits contribute to the perpetation of these antinormative behaviors. Our results shows good psychometric properties to the administration in young spanish population and replicate previous studies which relate psychopathy with antisocial behaviors as bullying and cyberbullying.