SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Role of Callous and Unemotional (CU) Traits on the Development of Youth with Behavioral Disorders: A Systematic Review.
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- Reference Values of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Youth Populations: A Systematic Literature Review.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in pre-schoolers: Psychosocial profiles in a Brazilian birth cohort.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Do executive functions moderate or mediate? exploring their role in the prospective association between psychopathic traits and conduct problems in children.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Callous-Unemotional Traits and Their Association with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from Gaze Behaviour During Emotion Recognition.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Social anxiety but not callous-unemotional traits predicts shame coping in conduct disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The correlation between latent types of emotional processing, physical exercise and aggressive behavior among middle school students: a study based on latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Social-Cognitive Factors in Antisocial Behavior and School Violence: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Greek Vocational Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The effect of empathy and callous-unemotional traits on externalizing behavior in juvenile offenders: The mediating role of moral disengagement.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Linking Callous-Unemotional Traits to Social Withdrawal Among Young Chinese Left-Behind Children: Examining the Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigating cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between brain structure and distinct dimensions of externalizing psychopathology in the ABCD sample.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- A new treatment approach to conduct disorder and callous-unemotional traits: an assessment of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of Impact VR.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Hostile and threatening interpretation biases in adolescent inpatients are specific to callous-unemotional traits and social anxiety.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Callous unemotional traits mediate the presence of challenging behaviors in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Callous-Unemotional Traits and Social Adjustment among Chinese Preschoolers: The Moderating Role of Teacher-Child Relationship.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Epistemic Trust and the Emergence of Conduct Problems: Aggression in the Service of Communication.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Numerous studies have shown that youth with behavioral disorders (BD) present an increased risk for developing severe and persistent antisocial behaviors in adulthood. Retrospective research notes that not all children and adolescents follow a negative trajectory and explains this heterogeneity in particular by the severity of CU traits. Our study examines how these traits affect the functioning of children and adolescents with BD.
methodA systematic literature review conducted through various databases and using different keywords made it possible to analyze 52 studies published from 2015 to 2020 that measured the bidirectional effects of CU traits on the functioning of young.
resultsOut of the 52 studies, 47 analyzed links between CU traits and neurobiological or mental health, 20 examined family and school contexts, eight focused on social adjustment, 10 on social interactions and 19 measured links with cognitive functioning, especially executive functions.
conclusionConsistent with previous recommendations in the field, our findings emphasize the importance of assessing the presence of UC traits in early childhood to prevent the emergence of comorbid disorders and to target multimodal (early) interventions to influence the life trajectories of youth with high CU traits.
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