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The present study examined whether overall psychopathy and specific psychopathy facets were associated with suicide risk among violently injured adults.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Participants were 458 violently injured adults (72% male;\n                      <jats:italic>\n                        M\n                        <jats:sub>age<\/jats:sub>\n                      <\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0=\u00a032.76 years) recruited from an urban trauma center in the United States. Participants completed measures assessing psychopathic traits, suicide risk, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between psychopathy and suicide risk while controlling for age, sex, race, PTSD and substance use.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>After controlling for age, sex, race, PTSD, and substance use, total psychopathy was positively associated with suicide risk. When psychopathy facets were examined, only the Lifestyle facet emerged as a significant independent predictor of suicide risk. Sex did not moderate associations between psychopathy and suicide risk.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest that the association between psychopathy and suicidality in violence-exposed populations may be more strongly related to traits reflecting behavioral dysregulation and impulsivity than to other psychopathy domains. Lifestyle-related psychopathic traits may be associated with greater suicide vulnerability through elevated impulsivity and increased engagement in risk-taking during periods of distress. Results highlight the importance of examining psychopathy as a multidimensional construct and suggest that externalizing personality traits may represent one potential pathway associated with suicide risk among violently injured adults.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyt.2026.1850812","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,22]],"date-time":"2026-06-22T05:38:19Z","timestamp":1782106699000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Psychopathy facets and suicide risk among violently injured adults"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Nicholas D.","family":"Thomson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University","place":["Richmond, VA, United States"]},{"name":"Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University","place":["Richmond,\u00a0VA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brooklyn A.","family":"Worthen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University","place":["Richmond, VA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jessica J.","family":"James","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University","place":["Richmond, VA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","unstructured":"Facts about suicide. 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