SynthesisPloS one2022
A meta-analysis of childhood maltreatment in relation to psychopathic traits.
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- Effectiveness of Violence Prevention Interventions: Umbrella Review of Research in the General Population.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Experiences in close relationships, interpersonal trust and OXTR expression in individuals with childhood maltreatment.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Long-term stability of self-reported psychopathic traits in former at-risk adolescents in youth welfare and juvenile justice institutions.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Maltreatment and parenting in youth with primary and secondary callous-unemotional traits: Anxiety matters.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- The Outcomes of Trauma-Informed Practice in Youth Justice: An Umbrella Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment and psychopathy in Chinese juvenile offenders: person-centered perspective.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Addressing the Complex Links between Psychopathy and Childhood Maltreatment, Emotion Regulation, and Aggression-A Network Analysis in Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Understanding empathy deficits and emotion dysregulation in psychopathy: The mediating role of alexithymia.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Emotionally Sensitive Child-Adverse Parenting Experiences-Allostatic (Over)Load (ESCAPE-AL) Model for the Development of Secondary Psychopathic Traits.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties of the Trauma Checklist 2.0 and its predictive utility of felony re-offending among high-risk juvenile offenders.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Social exclusion evokes different psychophysiological responses in individuals high on the psychopathy facets fearless dominance and self-centered impulsivity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- A neurocognitive model of early onset persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a mix of traits belonging to four facets: affective (e.g., callous/lack of empathy), interpersonal (e.g., grandiosity), behavioral instability (e.g., impulsivity, poor behavioral controls), and social deviance (e.g., juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility). Several scholars have argued that early childhood maltreatment impacts the development of psychopathy, although views regarding its role in the four facets differ. We conducted a meta-analysis including 47 studies comprising a total of 389 effect sizes and 12,737 participants, to investigate the association between psychopathy and four types of child maltreatment: physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse. We found support for a moderate link between overall psychopathy and childhood physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, as well as overall childhood maltreatment. The link between psychopathy and childhood sexual abuse was small, but still statistically significant. These associations were stronger for the behavioral and antisocial facets than for the affective and interpersonal facets of psychopathy, but nearly all associations were statistically significant. Our findings are consistent with recently developed theories on the role of complex trauma in the development of severe personality disorders. Trauma-focused preventive and therapeutic interventions can provide further tests of the trauma-psychopathy hypothesis.
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