ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2022
Parenting moderates the etiology of callous-unemotional traits in middle childhood.
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- The Evolving ADHD Phenotype in the Externalizing Context.The American journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Maternal psychopathic traits prospectively predict youth callous-unemotional traits.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Maltreatment and parenting in youth with primary and secondary callous-unemotional traits: Anxiety matters.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- The moderating role of early-life parental adverse and positive factors in the genetic and environmental contributions to objectively assessed sleep duration in middle childhood.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
- Measurement invariance of the inventory of Callous‑Unemotional traits in different age groups from preschool age to late adolescence in Germany.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The Heritability of Psychopathology Symptoms in Early Adolescence: Moderation by Family Cultural Values in the ABCD Study.Behavior genetics · 2024Article
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- The role of parenting in the intergenerational transmission of executive functioning: A genetically informed approach.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Genetic versus environmental influences on callous-unemotional traits in preadolescence: The role of parenting and parental psychopathology.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCallous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with chronic and escalating trajectories of antisocial behavior. Extant etiologic studies suggest that heritability estimates for CU traits vary substantially, while also pointing to an environmental association between parenting and CU traits.
methodsWe used twin modeling to estimate additive genetic (A), shared environmental (C), and nonshared environmental (E) influences on CU traits, measured with the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) and its subscales. Our sample included 600 twin pairs (age 6-11, 230 monozygotic) from neighborhoods with above-average levels of family poverty, a risk factor for antisocial behavior. We examined the extent to which correlations between parenting, measured via parent and child report on the Parental Environment Questionnaire, and CU traits reflected genetic versus environmental factors. Then, we tested whether parenting moderated the heritability of CU traits.
resultsIn the context of lower-income neighborhoods, CU traits were moderately to highly heritable (A = 54%) with similar moderate-to-high nonshared environmental influences (E = 46%). Bivariate models revealed that associations between CU traits and warm parenting were genetic (rA = .22) and environmental (rE = .19) in origin, whereas associations between CU traits and harsh parenting were largely genetic in origin (rA = .70). The heritability of CU traits decreased with increasing parental warmth and decreasing harshness.
conclusionsCallous-unemotional traits are both genetic and environmental in origin during middle childhood, but genetic influences are moderated by parenting quality. Parenting may be an important target for interventions, particularly among youth with greater genetic risk.
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