Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP) Test

Readers seeking a dimensional view of interpersonal and behavioral tendencies may want to understand how these areas appear in their responses. The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP) Test is designed for readers who prefer a dimensional profile over a single label. This online psychopathy test organizes those themes into a profile of reported tendencies, giving readers a structured way to consider the result.

What This Assessment Measures

Questions address relationships, ambition, and self-management. They cover entitlement, deception, empathy, responsibility, boredom, persistence, planning, mistakes, arguments, and taking distress out on others. They distinguish coldness and manipulation from impulsivity and emotional control.

The LSRP questionnaire contains three scales:

• Secondary Factor (10-40) reflects impulsive, destructive, and self-destructive tendencies, emotional instability, difficulty regulating emotions, and heightened reactivity. Bands: Low (10-16), Moderate (17-27), High (28-40).
• Primary Factor (16-64) reflects callousness, egocentricity, and manipulative interpersonal style; its profile includes rationality, low anxiety, superficial charm, difficulty learning from mistakes, and lack of responsibility. Bands: Low (16-24), Moderate (25-41), High (42-64).
• Psychopathy Scale (26-104) combines primary and secondary features: callousness, manipulation, and impulsivity. Higher scores may indicate more pronounced psychopathic tendencies and warrant professional interpretation. Bands: Low (26-42), Moderate (43-66), High (67-104).

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses a four-point agreement format, from strong disagreement to strong agreement. The statements ask respondents to rate attitudes or likely reactions, so answers are self-reported indicators rather than observations of behavior. The result combines item responses into two factor scores and one overall score. The displayed ranges do not themselves specify how much each response contributes, so points should not be inferred from them.

Conceptually, the content is consistent with the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP) described by Levenson, Kiehl, and Fitzpatrick (1995). That instrument separates primary interpersonal features from secondary impulsive, poorly regulated tendencies. Lynam, Whiteside, and Jones (1999) provide general context from a different self-report measure of psychopathy, while Salekin, Chen, Sellbom, Lester, and MacDougall (2014) examine the LSRP's factor structure and relations with other measures. The Levenson and Salekin sources address the LSRP's factor structure, but they do not independently validate this online questionnaire or its displayed bands as clinical norms.

As a psychopathy self-assessment, the result can be affected by current mood, self-presentation, memory, and self-awareness. A high score is not a diagnosis; interpretation should consider the response pattern, history, and broader assessment.