Mendoza Diaz Antonio, Overgaauw Sandy, Hawes David J, Dadds Mark R
Child Behavior Research Clinic, School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Clinical Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2018 Jun;49(3):480-491. doi: 10.1007/s10578-017-0766-4.
This study investigated the stability of callous and unemotional (CU) traits across generations by assessing self-report assessments of psychopathy factors in parents and their relationship to children's CU traits in a clinical sample: 223 boys (M age = 7.65) and 83 girls (M = 7.35) referred for treatment of disruptive behavior disorders. First, we expanded previous findings showing a positive relationship between maternal psychopathy scores and CU traits in boys. Second, we tested whether parental psychopathy scores predicted CU traits in children over and above general indicators of mental health risk: parental psychopathology, parental warmth, and harsh parenting. Fathers' psychopathy factor 1 was uniquely related to CU traits. In contrast, the relationship between mothers' psychopathy factor 2 and children's CU traits disappeared when maternal warmth was included. Gender differences suggested these results are most applicable to boys. These findings support the intergenerational stability of psychopathy factor 1 between children and their fathers.
本研究通过评估临床样本中父母的精神病态因素的自我报告评估及其与儿童冷酷无情（CU）特质的关系，调查了CU特质在几代人之间的稳定性：223名因破坏性行为障碍前来接受治疗的男孩（平均年龄=7.65岁）和83名女孩（平均年龄=7.35岁）。首先，我们扩展了先前的研究结果，该结果表明母亲的精神病态得分与男孩的CU特质之间存在正相关。其次，我们测试了父母的精神病态得分是否能在心理健康风险的一般指标之上预测儿童的CU特质：父母的精神病理学、父母的温暖程度和严厉的养育方式。父亲的精神病态因素1与CU特质独特相关。相比之下，当纳入母亲的温暖程度时，母亲的精神病态因素2与儿童CU特质之间的关系消失了。性别差异表明这些结果最适用于男孩。这些发现支持了精神病态因素1在儿童与其父亲之间的代际稳定性。
