Psychopathy and proclivity to accept rape myths as predictors of negative attitudes towards victims of rape: the moderating role of narcissism

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 6 Moderated mediation effect of grandiose narcissism and conditional indirect effects of primary psychopathy on the association between rape myths acceptance and attitudes towards rape victims

Consequent M (primary psychopathy)
Antecedent			B	SE				t		p
X (rape myths acceptance)			.04	.03				1.75		.010
W (grandiose narcissism)			0.59	.01				12.33		.000
X × W			.01	.00				28.17		.000
R² = 0.12; F = 25.16; p < .001
Y = attitudes towards rape victims
X (rape myths acceptance)		0.41			.03		12.13				.000
M (primary psychopathy)		0.16			.02		3.41				.000
W (grandiose narcissism)		0.11			.01		6.34				.000
X × W		0.12			.01		6.22				.000
R² = 0.19; F = 25.71; p < .001
Conditional indirect effects of primary psychopathy on attitudes towards rape victims
W (grandiose narcissism)	B					SE			LL			UL
M−1 SD ()	−.02					.01			−.01			.02
M (0.00)	.01					.01			.04			.02
M + 1 SD ()	.02					.02			0.14			.02

Level of confidence for all estimations of confidence intervals in output was 95% with number of bootstrap model samples = 10,000; moreover, W equals to the moderating variable depicted in the above model