Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2013 Jul;41(5):811-24. doi: 10.1007/s10802-013-9726-z.
Conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits can have a long-lasting negative impact into adulthood. Importantly, among youth with CP, those high on CU traits engage in a more severe, aggressive, and persistent pattern of antisocial behavior. The current study investigates the co-occurrence between CP and CU traits among a large sample of Greek-Cypriot adolescents (N = 1,674; 50.1 % girls). Five distinct groups were identified with Latent Profile Analysis: low risk (48.7 %), average risk (33.8 %), co-occurring high CP-high CU (5.4 %), high CP-low CU (5.2 %), and low CP-high CU (6.9 %). Although more boys were identified in the higher risk groups, boys and girls within each group were not differentiated on levels of CP or CU traits during early adolescence. Youth in the identified groups were compared on early (Mean age = 12.12) and middle (Mean age = 14.02) adolescence individual and contextual factors. Youth with high CP-high CU were at higher risk for behavioral (bullying and substance use), individual (inattention, impulsivity, narcissism), and contextual (low family-support) problems compared to youth in the high CP-low CU and low CP-high CU groups, providing evidence that the combination of CP and CU traits might constitute a pathological group. These findings demonstrate the usefulness of sub-typing CP based on CU traits for the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Additional novel findings suggested that adolescents scoring high on CP, irrespective of CU, were not differentiated on hyperactivity, victimization, and anxiety/depression, and adolescents scoring high on CU traits, with or without CP, reported similar low levels of self-esteem and peer and family social-support.
品行问题 (CP) 和冷酷无情 (CU) 特征可能对成年后产生持久的负面影响。重要的是,在具有 CP 的年轻人中,那些 CU 特征较高的人会表现出更严重、更具攻击性和更持续的反社会行为模式。本研究调查了在一大群希腊塞浦路斯青少年(N = 1,674;50.1%为女孩)中 CP 和 CU 特征的共现情况。使用潜在剖面分析确定了五个不同的群体:低风险(48.7%)、平均风险(33.8%)、CP 高-CU 高(5.4%)、CP 高-CU 低(5.2%)和 CP 低-CU 高(6.9%)。虽然在更高风险群体中发现了更多的男孩,但在每个群体中,男孩和女孩在青少年早期的 CP 或 CU 特征水平上没有差异。在个体和背景因素方面,对识别出的群体进行了比较,包括早期(平均年龄 = 12.12)和中期(平均年龄 = 14.02)。与 CP 低-CU 高和 CP 低-CU 高组的青少年相比,CP 高-CU 高的青少年更有可能出现行为(欺凌和药物使用)、个体(注意力不集中、冲动、自恋)和环境(家庭支持低)问题,这表明 CP 和 CU 特征的结合可能构成一个病理性群体。这些发现证明了基于 CU 特征对 CP 进行亚分类在即将发布的第五版《诊断与统计手册》中的有用性。新的发现表明,无论 CU 得分如何,CP 得分高的青少年在多动、受害和焦虑/抑郁方面没有差异,而 CP 特征高、无论是否存在 CU 的青少年报告的自尊心和同伴及家庭社会支持水平相似较低。
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