ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2017
Late childhood interpersonal callousness and conduct problem trajectories interact to predict adult psychopathy.
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- Evaluating the sensitivity to threat and affiliative reward (STAR) model in relation to the development of conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits across early adolescence.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Review
- Unique versus shared neural correlates of externalizing psychopathology in late childhood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- Why Should I? Examining How Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Relate to Prosocial and Affiliative Behaviors and Motivations.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
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- Is it good to be bad? An evolutionary analysis of the adaptive potential of psychopathic traits.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
- Psychopathy.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2021Review
- Reward Processing in Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Callous-Unemotional Traits in the ABCD Study.The American journal of psychiatry · 2021Article
- Adolescent Cannabis Use and Conduct Problems: The Mediating Influence of Callous-Unemotional Traits.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2020Article
- Developmental trajectories of interpersonal callousness from childhood to adolescence as predictors of antisocial behavior and psychopathic features in young adulthood.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019Article
- Personality disorders, addictions and psychopathy as predictors of criminal behaviour in a prison sample.Revista espanola de sanidad penitenciaria · 2019Article
- Trajectories of callous-unemotional traits from childhood to adolescence in referred youth with a disruptive behavior disorder who received intensive multimodal therapy in childhood.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2018Article
- Concurrent and developmental correlates of psychopathic traits using a triarchic psychopathy model approach.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudies have demonstrated a robust association between interpersonal callousness (IC) and the development of severe and chronic conduct problems (CP) in youth. Although children exhibiting IC are also believed to be at particularly high risk for developing psychopathic personality features in adulthood, there is little longitudinal evidence supporting this assumption, particularly after controlling for co-occuring CP severity.
methodsThis study used data collected on a longitudinal cohort of boys (n = 508), with an oversampling of youth exhibiting elevated conduct problems. Analyses examined the unique and interactive association between latent growth curve trajectories of IC and CP assessed bi-annually from late childhood to early adolescence (~ages 10-13) and features of psychopathy in early adulthood (age ~ 24) assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist - Short Version (PCL:SV; Hart, Cox, & Hare, 1995).
resultsGrowth curve analysis indicated that initial levels of IC and CP in childhood (~age 10 intercept) both uniquely predicted the development of the interpersonal/affective features of adult psychopathy, and boys with a combination of high initial levels of IC and CP were at particularly high risk for developing the impulsive/antisocial features of the disorder. Boys who exhibited systematic increases in CP from late childhood to early adolescence also demonstrated higher adult psychopathy scores, but changes in IC across this developmental period did not significantly add to the prediction of adult psychopathy.
conclusionsFindings highlight the importance of developing targeted interventions for boys exhibiting severe IC and CP in childhood, as they appear to be at high risk for developing adult psychopathic features.
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