ArticlePsychological medicine2020
Assessing callous-unemotional traits: development of a brief, reliable measure in a large and diverse sample of preadolescent youth.
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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
- Unique versus shared neural correlates of externalizing psychopathology in late childhood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
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- Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence.PloS one · 2023Article
- Genetic versus environmental influences on callous-unemotional traits in preadolescence: The role of parenting and parental psychopathology.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Conduct disorder symptomatology is associated with an altered functional connectome in a large national youth sample.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- An update on the assessment of culture and environment in the ABCD Study®: Emerging literature and protocol updates over three measurement waves.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Callous-unemotional traits and reduced default mode network connectivity within a community sample of children.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Reward Processing in Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Callous-Unemotional Traits in the ABCD Study.The American journal of psychiatry · 2021Article
- Heterogeneity Within Youth With Childhood-Onset Conduct Disorder in the ABCD Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundCallous-unemotional (CU) traits are critical to developmental, diagnostic, and clinical models of antisocial behaviors (AB). However, assessments of CU traits within large-scale longitudinal and neurobiologically focused investigations remain remarkably sparse. We sought to develop a brief measure of CU traits using items from widely administered instruments that could be linked to neuroimaging, genetic, and environmental data within already existing datasets and future studies.
methodsData came from a large and diverse sample (n = 4525) of youth (ages~9-11) taking part in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Moderated nonlinear factor analysis was used to assess measurement invariance across sex, race, and age. We explored whether CU traits were distinct from other indicators of AB, investigated unique links with theoretically-relevant outcomes, and replicated findings in an independent sample.
resultsThe brief CU traits measure demonstrated strong psychometric properties and evidence of measurement invariance across sex, race, and age. On average, boys endorsed higher levels of CU traits than girls and CU traits were related to, yet distinguishable from other indicators of AB. The CU traits construct also exhibited expected associations with theoretically important outcomes. Study findings were also replicated across an independent sample of youth.
conclusionsIn a large, multi-site study, a brief measure of CU traits can be measured distinctly from other dimensions of AB. This measure provides the scientific community with a method to assess CU traits in the ABCD sample, as well as in other studies that may benefit from a brief assessment of CU.
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