Big-Five and Callous-unemotional Traits in Preschoolers

Assary, Elham; Salekin, Randall T.; Barker, Edward D.

doi:10.1007/s10862-014-9471-9

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“…By including both teacher and parent ratings, the present study was responsive to prior calls to use multiple informants when scrutinizing the convergent validity of psychopathy measures (e.g., Assary, Salekin, & Barker, 2014). CPTI scores showed the expected relations with teacher- and parent-rated external criterion measures, even after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics.…”

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Psychopathic Traits in Early Childhood: Further Validation of the Child Problematic Traits Inventory

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The aim was to further test the reliability and validity of a newly developed instrument designed to assess psychopathic personality traits in children, the Child Problematic Traits Inventory (CPTI). Data from the Preschool Twin Study in Sweden were used, a national general population study of 5-year-old twins ( n = 1,188, 50.3% girls). Both preschool teachers and parents were used as informants. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the intended three-factorial structure of the 28 items of the CPTI. Overall, our findings demonstrated good internal consistency and convergent validity, with all the teacher-rated CPTI scores being associated with teacher and parent ratings of externalizing psychopathology, aggressive behavior, fearlessness, and prosocial peer involvement. In conclusion, the CPTI hold promise as a teacher-rated tool for assessing psychopathic traits in childhood, though more research is needed to see if these findings can be generalized to other countries, settings, and older children.

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Psychopathic Traits in Early Childhood: Further Validation of the Child Problematic Traits Inventory

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“…Moreover, recent work suggests that low agreeableness saturates extant psychopathy inventories and helps explain their higher-order structure (Lynam & Miller, in press; Sherman, Lynam, & Heyde, 2014). Assary, Salekin, and Barker (2015) recently examined the relations between the FFM and callous-unemotional (CU) traits in preschool children; these authors found that agreeableness was negatively correlated with CU traits almost as highly as the reliabilities of the scales allow. Current results also support the importance of these two traits in adolescence as risk factors for psychopathy and antisocial behavior in adulthood.…”

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Identifying Essential Features of Juvenile Psychopathy in the Prediction of Later Antisocial Behavior

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Clinical Psychological Science

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Despite years of research, and inclusion of psychopathy DSM-5, there remains debate over the fundamental components of psychopathy. Although there is agreement about traits related to Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, there is less agreement about traits related to Fearless Dominance (FD) or Boldness. The present paper uses proxies of FD and Self-centered Impulsivity (SCI) to examine the contribution of FD-related traits to the predictive utility of psychopathy in a large, longitudinal, sample of boys to test four possibilities: FD 1. assessed earlier is a risk factor, 2. interacts with other risk-related variables to predict later psychopathy, 3. interacts with SCI interact to predict outcomes, and 4. bears curvilinear relations to outcomes. SCI received excellent support as a measure of psychopathy in adolescence; however, FD was unrelated to criteria in all tests. It is suggested that FD be dropped from psychopathy and that future research focus on Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.

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“…Several studies have shown that child psychopathic traits can be observed at very young ages (Assary, Salekin, & Barker, ; Kimonis et al., ; Waller et al., ), and the traits have been shown to demonstrate stability. For instance, Waller et al., examined children from ages 2 to 4 years and found moderate stability.…”

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Research Review: What do we know about psychopathic traits in children?

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While the construct appears to be valid, future work should broaden its focus from callous unemotional traits to all three dimensions of the construct, enhance measurement precision, and examine dimension interactions. Such research could have important implications for CD specification for future versions of the DSM and ICD and speed etiological knowledge and clinical care for youth with conduct problems.

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Big-Five and Callous-unemotional Traits in Preschoolers

Cited by 16 publications

References 49 publications

Psychopathic Traits in Early Childhood: Further Validation of the Child Problematic Traits Inventory

Psychopathic Traits in Early Childhood: Further Validation of the Child Problematic Traits Inventory

Identifying Essential Features of Juvenile Psychopathy in the Prediction of Later Antisocial Behavior

Research Review: What do we know about psychopathic traits in children?

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