Psychopathic personality in children: genetic and environmental contributions

Bezdjian, Serena; Raine, Adrian; Baker, Laura A.; Lynam, Donald R.

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“…Twin studies suggest genetic factors may be more involved in the expression of CP for children high on CU traits than for children low on CU traits [16,17], and shared environmental factors such as parenting were less involved in their CP behaviors [17]. Also, CU traits have been found to relate to temperamental fearlessness [18,19]; this lack of fear may explain why children with CU traits are more difficult to socialize since they fail to experience transgression-related anxiety.…”

Section: Childhood Callous-unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Bmentioning

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Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time

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Centifanti

2013

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Citation for published item:p ntiD uF nd gentif nti @n¡ ee wu£ nozAD vFgF @PHIRA 9ghildhood llousEunemotion l tr its moder te the rel tion etween p renting distress nd ondu t pro lems over timeF9D ghild psy hi try nd hum n developmentFD RS @PAF ppF IUQEIVRF Further information on publisher's website:The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-013-0389-3.Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Maria-Zoe Hadjicharalambous for useful comments on a previous draft of this paper.2 AbstractThe present short-term longitudinal study examines the bidirectional effects among paternalreported and maternal-reported involvement, distress and conduct-problems (CP) in children ages 7-12 years with callous-unemotional (CU) traits as a potential moderator. Latent profile analysis revealed four groups: high, moderate, decreasing, and low on CU traits. Findings suggested that children high on CU traits were at higher risk to exhibit CP and were more likely to experience low parental-involvement and high parental-distress compared to children with low, decreasing, and moderate CU traits. Findings from the cross-lagged structural equation model suggested that high levels of CP predicted increases in parenting distress, and this was shown for youth with high levels of CU traits. In turn, parental-reported distress predicted increases in CP for children in the low and decreasing CU groups. A negative bidirectional association between maternal-involvement and CP was also identified. Findings extend crosssectional research showing parents become distressed by CP behaviors, particularly when accompanied by high CU traits.

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Section: Childhood Callous-unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Bmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time

Fanti

Centifanti

2013

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Forsman et al (2008) reported sex differences in the phenotypic variances for grandiose/manipulative, callous-unemotional (CU), and impulsive/irresponsible traits, but not in the respective contributions of genetic or environmental influences (Forsman et al, 2008). In contrast, Bezdjian et al (2010) reported higher heritability estimates for callous/disinhibited traits and lower heritability estimates for manipulative/deceitful traits in males. Similarly, Fontaine, Rijsdijk, McCrory, and Viding (2010) examined sex differences in the heritability of CU trait trajectories from late childhood to early adolescence and also found evidence for stronger additive genetic influences on CU traits in boys, but only for boys with high or increasing levels of CU traits over time (Fontaine et al, 2010).…”

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Sex differences in the etiology of psychopathic traits in youth.

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Dong

Waldman

2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Few studies have examined the etiology of psychopathic traits in youth, and even fewer have tested whether the genetic and environmental influences underlying these traits differ for boys and girls. We tested for sex differences in the etiology of 3 trait dimensions-impulsivity, narcissism, and callous-unemotionality (CU)-previously found to underlie youth psychopathy in our sample. Using biometric modeling we tested whether constraining the genetic and environmental influences for each dimension across sex reduced model fit. We also tested for qualitative sex differences in the influences underlying these dimensions by allowing the genetic and environmental correlations between opposite sex dizygotic twins to be less than their respective values in same-sex dizygotic twins. Although the magnitudes of the genetic and environmental influences underlying the CU and narcissistic trait dimensions did not differ for boys and girls, nonshared environmental influences contributed significantly greater variance to impulsive traits in boys. No qualitative sex differences were found in the influences underlying any of the 3 trait dimensions, suggesting that the same genes and environments contribute to these psychopathic traits in males and females.

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“…13,38 In this sample of children, however, there were no sex differences at age 12 years in regard to CU traits. Although sex differences have been noted in the heritability and trajectory of CU traits and psychopathy, 13,39 previous research has not examined potential sex differences in intervention effectiveness on CU traits. [40][41][42] An additional finding of interest was the moderate and positive levels of agreement between CU traits and both dimensional and diagnostic measures of externalizing psychopathology.…”

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5 High-Quality Foster Care Mitigates Callous-Unemotional Traits Following Early Deprivation in Boys: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Zeanah

Humphreys²,

McGoron³

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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective-Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in childhood are a developmental precursor to psychopathy, yet the origins and etiology of CU traits are not known. We examined CU traits Correspondence to Charles H. Zeanah, MD, 1430 Tulane Avenue #8055, New Orleans, LA 70112; czeanah@tulane.edu. Disclosure: Dr. Humphreys has received grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. She has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. She has served as a paid consultant to ZERO TO THREE. Dr. McGoron has received grant support from NIMH and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Dr. Sheridan has received grant support from NIMH, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. She has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. Dr. McLaughlin has received grant support from NIMH and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. She has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. Dr. Fox has received grant support from NIMH and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He serves on the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He has received royalties from Taylor and Francis Press and Harvard University Press. He has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. Dr. Nelson has received grant support from NIMH, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Sinneave Foundation, and the Binder Family Foundation. He serves on the scientific advisory board of the Merck Foundation, the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and has served as a paid consultant to the US Department of Justice. He has received royalties from Harvard University Press, MIT Press, and Wiley and Sons. He has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. Dr. Zeanah has received grant support from NIMH, the Palix Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, SAMHSA, and the Institute for Mental Hygiene. He has received royalties from Guilford Press and Harvard University Press. He has received honoraria for lectures to professional audiences. HHS Public Access Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript among 12-year-old children exposed to severe early deprivation and evaluated whether a highquality foster care intervention mitigated the development of high levels of CU traits.Method-Participants were from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care for children in institutions. Children were recruited from institutions in Bucharest, Romania, along with age-and sex-matched children who were never institutionalized. Children raised in institutional settings were randomized (mean age = 22 months) to either a foster care group (n = 68) or a care-as-usual group (n = 68). CU traits were assessed at age 12.75 years in available participants from the randomized trial (n = 95) and children who were never institutionali...

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Psychopathic personality in children: genetic and environmental contributions

Cited by 105 publications

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Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time

Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Parenting Distress and Conduct Problems Over Time

Sex differences in the etiology of psychopathic traits in youth.

5 High-Quality Foster Care Mitigates Callous-Unemotional Traits Following Early Deprivation in Boys: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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