Payot Morgane, Monseur Christian, Stievenart Marie
Research Unit for a Life-Course Perspective on Health & Education, University of Liege, Place des Orateurs, 1, 4000, Liège, Belgium.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Apr;56(2):543-555. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01576-z. Epub 2023 Aug 8.
Current literature demonstrates the relevance of considering two variants of CU traits based on high or low levels of anxiety. However, there is limited information about these variants in young community samples. The current study used cluster analyses to investigate the primary and the secondary variants of CU traits in two samples of children: preschool (N = 107; M = 4.95, SD = 0.62) and school-age (N = 153; M = 7.49, SD = 1.11). The identified clusters were compared on empathic dimensions, aggressive behavior and criteria from the "with limited prosocial emotions" specifier from the DSM-V. The primary variant was identified as early as preschool age while the secondary variant was only identified in the school-age sample. In this latter sample, the two variants did not differ on assessed variables, except for aggressive behavior. Despite the similarities between the two variants, these results suggest distinct developmental trajectories.
当前文献表明，基于焦虑水平的高低来考虑冷酷无情特质的两种变体具有重要意义。然而，在年轻社区样本中，关于这些变体的信息有限。本研究采用聚类分析，对两组儿童样本（学龄前儿童，N = 107；M = 4.95，SD = 0.62；学龄儿童，N = 153；M = 7.49，SD = 1.11）的冷酷无情特质的主要和次要变体进行了调查。在共情维度、攻击行为以及来自《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第五版“亲社会情感有限”说明中的标准方面，对识别出的聚类进行了比较。主要变体早在学龄前儿童时期就已被识别出来，而次要变体仅在学龄儿童样本中被识别出来。在后者这个样本中，除了攻击行为外，两种变体在评估变量上没有差异。尽管这两种变体存在相似之处，但这些结果表明了不同的发展轨迹。
