ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2018
A Unique Path to Callous-Unemotional Traits for Children who are Temperamentally Fearless and Unconcerned about Transgressions: a Longitudinal Study of Typically Developing Children from age 2 to 12.
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- Parenting Characteristics and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Children Aged 0-6 Years: A Systematic Narrative Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Pooled it
- Internet-Delivered Parent Training for Preschoolers with Conduct Problems: Do Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate Efficacy and Engagement?Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Trial
- Identifying prospective temperament predictors of callous-unemotional traits using machine learning.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Predictive Relations Between Early Adversity, Nonlinear Trajectories of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Functioning, and Later Callous-Unemotional Traits.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Parenting Under Pressure: How Child Limited Prosocial Emotions Shape the Stress-Warmth Connection.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- 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
- Fearlessness as an Underlying Mechanism Leading to Conduct Problems: Testing the INTERFEAR Model in a Community Sample in Spain.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder-Short Version (PSCD-SV): Psychometric Properties, Concurrent Correlates and Parenting Predictors.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Morality in middle childhood: the role of callous-unemotional traits and emotion regulation skills.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Psychometric Properties, Factor Structure, and Validity of the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward Scale in Children and Adults.Assessment · 2023Article
- Is feeling bad good enough? Ethical guilt and callous-unemotional traits in childhood.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Examining Links Between Infant Parasympathetic Regulation during the Still-Face Paradigm and Later Callous-Unemotional Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Psychopathic Traits in Childhood: Insights from Parental Warmth and Fearless Temperament via Conscience Development.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Test of the Low Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model of Callous-Unemotional Traits Among Spanish Preschoolers.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Fearlessness and low social affiliation as unique developmental precursors of callous-unemotional behaviors in preschoolers.Psychological medicine · 2021Article
- Social Problems in Children: Exploring the Contribution of Triarchic Traits and Parenting.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Callous-Unemotional Traits and Effortful Control Mediate the Effect of Parenting Intervention on Preschool Conduct Problems.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2018Article
- Conduct disorders and psychopathy in children and adolescents: aetiology, clinical presentation and treatment strategies of callous-unemotional traits.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2017Review
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Abstract
Despite the acknowledged significance of callous-unemotional (CU) traits in developmental psychopathology, few studies have examined their early antecedents in typically developing children, in long-term longitudinal designs, using observational measures. In 102 community mothers, fathers, and children (N = 51 girls), we examined main and interactive effects of children's fearless temperament and low concern about transgressions from toddler to early school age as predictors of CU traits in middle childhood and early preadolescence. In laboratory paradigms, we observed children's concern about breaking valuable objects (twice at each age of 2, 3, 4.5, 5.5, and 6.5 years) and about hurting the parent (twice at each age of 2, 3, and 4.5 years). We observed fearless temperament during scripted exposure to novel and mildly threatening objects and events (twice at each age of 2, 3, 4.5, and 5.5 years). Mothers and fathers rated children's CU traits and externalizing behavior problems at ages 8, 10, and 12. Children's low concern about both types of transgressions predicted CU traits, but those effects were qualified by the expected interactions with fearless temperament: Among relatively fearless children, those who were unconcerned about transgressions were at the highest risk for CU traits, even after controlling for the strong overlap between CU traits and externalizing problems. For fearful children, variation in concern about transgressions was unrelated to CU traits. Those interactions were not significant in the prediction of externalizing problems. The study highlights a potentially unique etiology of CU traits in early development.
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