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Description: The present study will examine the role of stressful life events, psychopathy, and the interaction between stressful life events and psychopathy in internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Participants for this study were individuals recruited from community samples assessed by the Center on Antisocial Drug Dependence (CADD). The community samples included individuals from the Adolescent Substance Abuse Family Study (Stallings et al., 1997), the Colorado Longitudinal Twin Sample and the Community Twin Sample (Rhea, Gross, Haberstick, and Corley, 2006; 2013), and the Colorado Adoption Project (Rhea, Bricker, Wadsworth, and Corley, 2013). In this study, primary and secondary psychopathy were assessed via the Levenson Psychopathy Scale (Levenson, Kiehl, and Fitzpatrick, 1995). Exposure to stressful life events was assessed via two measures: The Colorado Adolescent Rearing Inventory Questionnaire (CARI-Q; Crowley, Mikulich, Ehlers, Hall, and Whitmore, 2003) and the Life Experience Survey (LES; Sarason, Johnson, and Siegel, 1978). Psychopathology was assessed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule-IV (DSM-IV; Robins, Cottler, Bucholz, Compton, North, and Rourke, 2000) and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Substance Abuse Module (CIDI-SAM; Cottler, Robins, and Helzer, 1989).