Does psychopathy manifest divergent relations with components of its nomological network depending on gender?

Despite a great deal of empirical research on psychopathy there are fewer data on psychopathy in female samples, especially non-institutionalized samples, and it is unclear whether psychopathy manifests in similar ways across gender. In a large undergraduate sample, we explored psychopathy in relation to gender in a two-fold manner. First, we examined whether there were significant gender differences in self-report psychopathy scores; there were (men scored higher). Second, we tested whether psychopathy’s relations with important constructs from its nomological network differ depending on gender. Psychopathy largely manifested a pattern of relations that did not vary across gender, with a few important exceptions (e.g., traits related to impulsivity and Openness). Ultimately, these results suggest that, despite mean-level differences between men and women, psychopathy operates in a relatively consistent manner across gender.