Behav Sci Law. 2009 Nov-Dec;27(6):910-28. doi: 10.1002/bsl.911.
The association of callous-unemotional (CU) traits with violence and severe antisocial behavior has led to a recent focus on the association between CU traits and sexual offending behavior. When assessing juveniles with sexual offenses, practice standards recommend that multiple sources of data are considered. However, the differential correlates of parent-report versus self-report of CU traits in juvenile sex offenders have not been investigated. A sample of 94 detained male youth (mean age = 15.22, SD = 1.48) was administered both youth and parent versions of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU), a general delinquency risk assessment tool (YLS), and a sexual offending risk assessment tool (J-SOAP-II) to investigate concordance between self-report and parent-report of CU traits as well as association with general and sex-specific risk factors. Both parent-report and self-report of CU traits were significantly related to higher general delinquency risk scores, with parent-report showing stronger correlations than self-report. Both parent-report and self-report were related to sex-specific risk factors. However, only parent-report significantly predicted static sexual risk, while self-report significantly predicted dynamic sexual risk scores. Evidence supports the importance of including both parent- and self-report of CU traits in the comprehensive assessment of sexually offending youth.
冷酷无情（CU）特质与暴力和严重反社会行为的关联，导致最近人们关注 CU 特质与性犯罪行为之间的关联。在评估有性犯罪的青少年时，实践标准建议考虑多种来源的数据。然而，青少年性犯罪者中父母报告与自我报告的 CU 特质的差异相关性尚未得到调查。对 94 名被拘留的男性青年（平均年龄=15.22，标准差=1.48）进行了青少年和父母版本的冷酷无情特质量表（ICU）、一般犯罪风险评估工具（YLS）和性犯罪风险评估工具（J-SOAP-II）的评估，以调查 CU 特质的自我报告和父母报告之间的一致性，以及与一般和特定于性别的风险因素的关联。CU 特质的父母报告和自我报告均与更高的一般犯罪风险评分显著相关，而父母报告的相关性强于自我报告。父母报告和自我报告均与特定于性别的风险因素有关。然而，只有父母报告显著预测了静态性风险，而自我报告显著预测了动态性风险评分。有证据支持在对性犯罪青少年进行综合评估时，包括父母报告和自我报告的 CU 特质的重要性。
