Department of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2021 Dec;52(6):1060-1070. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01083-5. Epub 2020 Oct 24.
The current study examined whether two variants of psychopathic traits (PT) were identifiable in high-risk youth who had not yet been identified as antisocial, some of whom had documented histories of maltreatment (N = 167, M = 14.84), and then whether the variants differed in levels of aggression and empathy. High-PT youth with low anxiety and trauma (i.e., primary variant PT) and high anxiety and trauma (i.e., secondary variant PT) were differentiated. The secondary variant group was comprised largely of youth with documented histories of maltreatment. This group of youth also reported higher levels of proactive and reactive aggression than did the primary variant youth and low-PT youth. All youth reported similar levels of affective empathy and only small differences in cognitive empathy emerged: Primary variant youth reported lower cognitive empathy than low-PT youth. Findings support generalization of two variant groups of youth with psychopathic traits to diverse, high-risk samples not already identified as antisocial and have important implications for policy and practice.
本研究旨在探讨在尚未被认定为反社会的高危青年中，是否存在两种变体的精神病态特征（PT），其中一些人有虐待史（N=167，M=14.84），然后探讨这些变体在攻击性和同理心水平上是否存在差异。高 PT 青年中，焦虑和创伤水平较低（即主要变体 PT）与焦虑和创伤水平较高（即次要变体 PT）的青年有所区别。主要变体组主要由有虐待史的青年组成。这组青年报告的积极和消极攻击性水平高于主要变体青年和低 PT 青年。所有青年报告的情感同理心水平相似，只有认知同理心略有差异：主要变体青年报告的认知同理心低于低 PT 青年。研究结果支持将具有精神病态特征的两种变体青年群体推广到尚未被认定为反社会的多样化高危样本，这对政策和实践具有重要意义。
