A Gamified Assessment Tool for Antisocial Personality Traits (Antisocial Personality Traits Evidence-Centered Design Gamified): Randomized Controlled Trial
Abstract
Background The traditional self-report instruments (eg, scales) used to measure antisocial personality traits are characterized by social desirability bias and fail to capture multidimensional behaviors (eg, manipulation and deception). Objective This study aimed to develop and validate an evidence-based design for a gamified assessment tool (Antisocial Personality Traits Evidence-Centered Design Gamified assessment tool; ASP-ECD-G) to measure 7 antisocial personality traits (manipulative, callous, deceptive, hostile, risk taking, impulsive, and irresponsible) as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Methods This research featured a 3-phase evidence-centered design framework. Ontology development (study 1): semistructured interviews were conducted with 9 workplace professionals to translate the DSM-5 criteria into 24 observable workplace behaviors, which were integrated into a text-based game featuring 10 subscenarios, 34 interactive questions, and logic rooted in logical jumps to simulate real-world decision-making. Model construction (study 2): 6 machine learning models were trained by reference to a set of Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Short Form scores (n=286). The gated recurrent unit model, which uses 1-hot encoding to address nominal response data, was evaluated in terms of the root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error, criterion correlation (r), and test-retest reliability. Retest reliability was…
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Evidence Hub reads this as a randomized trial, done in people. Its evidence level is 2 of 5 (High · randomized trial). Randomized trials of a reasonable size are the strongest single-study design. Reported size: 286 participants or records.
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