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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"callous-unemotional"”.
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Childhood abuse, dissociation, and callous-unemotional traits
… exposure to family violence), dissociation, and callous-unemotional traits. Past literature has recognized that a significant subset of children are developing with an extensive history of abuse in an environment that is devoid of nurturing (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, …
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Neuroendocrine Function of Female Youth with Callous-Unemotional Traits
<p> <p>Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have been shown to designate a particular subgroup of antisocial youth that are particularly violent, recidivistic, and more likely to continue offending in adulthood. Disordered neuroendocrine function may be a mechanism for the development of CU traits. We …
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Adolescents with Callous Unemotional Traits and their Roles in Group Crime
… present study examined the relationship between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and self-reported leadership characteristics during group crimes among 614 first-time offenders participating in a large multi-site study. Resistance to peer influence (RPI) and self-esteem (SE) were hypothesized to …
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Callous Unemotional Traits and Patterns of Antisocial Behavior Among Female Juvenile Offenders
… study involved examining the influence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits on the aggressive behavior and criminal offending of female juveniles committed to a secure juvenile justice facility. A history of physical abuse was examined as a potential moderator of these relationships. The …
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Incarcerated juvenile delinquents: psychopathic traits and the relevance of callous-unemotional traits
… psychopathic traits in general and elevated callous-unemotional traits in particular are an important subgroup of antisocial youth showing a particularly severe, violent and persistent pattern of behavior. The present investigation has as its aims: I) to analyze the psychometric properties of …
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Emotion Recognition, Emotion Regulation, and Callous: Unemotional Traits in Incarcerated Male Youth
Youth with Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits represent an important subgroup of antisocial youth whose behavioral, affective, and cognitive functioning appear sharply different from other youth with conduct problems. However, few, if any studies have examined the interaction of cognitive control and …
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The Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotional Processing Within Individuals and Across Generations
… threatening emotional stimuli may result in a callous-unemotional (CU) and thrill-andadventure- seeking (TAS) personality. In this study we examined emotional processing in fifty community children, each with one parent, using the emotional pictures dot-probe task, which is a computerized task …
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Mechanisms of Empathic Behavior in Children with Callous-Unemotional Traits: Eye Gaze and Emotion Recognition
The presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits (e.g., shallow affect, lack of empathy) in children predicts reduced prosocial behavior. Similarly, CU traits relate to emotion recognition deficits, which may be related to deficits in visual attention to the eye region of others. Notably, …
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Investigating the role of fearless temperament and parenting practices in callous-unemotional traits in middle childhood
Callous unemotional traits (CU traits) are a risk factor for youth misconduct, yet, questions remain regarding their etiology, as well as other dimensions of psychopathy, namely impulsivity/sensation-seeking (INS) and grandiosity/deceitfulness (GD). Fearless temperament and problematic parenting …
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Callous-Unemotional Traits and Empathy Deficits: Mediating Effects of Affective Perspective-Taking and Facial Emotion Recognition
<p>Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are core features of psychopathy that indicate severe and pervasive disruptions in behavioral and emotional functioning in youths (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Research on how CU traits are associated with cognitive and affective empathy (which includes an …
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Differences in Heart Rate Reactivity and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Young Adults Related to Severity of Maltreatment
… changes over time such as the formation of callous-unemotional traits or diminished physiological response systems. The current study examines the potential long term effects of childhood maltreatment in young adults who report a history of early abuse or neglect. More specifically, the …
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Examining the Influence of Callous-Unemotional Traits on Outcomes in an Evidence-based Treatment Program for Delinquent Adolescents
… focus of the investigation was on whether Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits moderated the effects of treatment and whether therapists tailored the intervention to youths with these traits. The sample was 134 youths (15.34 years) who had been arrested and referred to a community mental health …
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Electrophysiological indices of the violence inhibition mechanism and their associations with physical agression, callous-unemotional traits, and dietary omega-3
… by aggressive behaviour and associated callous-unemotional traits, is used to explain how the perception of facial distress might inhibit an ongoing aggressive act. Despite a sizeable literature characterising the violence inhibition mechanism, to date, empirical research has overlooked …
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Psychopathic traits and social-cognitive processes in aggressive youth
… of recidivism. In youth, conduct problems and callous/unemotional characteristics are associated with characteristics of adulthood psychopathy. Downward extending adult criteria to youth is problematic. However, there is substantial evidence that adults with psychopathy traits began that …
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Relational Aggression, Social Aggression, and Antisocial Personality Features: An Investigation of Bullying Behavior in a Sample of Juvenile Offenders
… antisocial personality features (narcissism and callous-unemotional traits). Participants included 58 male and 21 female offenders between the ages of 13 and 18 from an urban school serving youth who were adjudicated through the juvenile justice system. Data were obtained from a de-identified …
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Investigating Exposure to Community Violence and Associated Internalizing and Externalising Behaviours in a Sample of South African Male Youth
… internalizing and externalizing behaviours and callous-unemotional traits in male youth, thus presenting an area for research inquiry. Using a cross-sectional, quantitative design, the current study investigated exposure to community violence and its three subcategories, namely, witness, victim …
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The Role of Emotion in the Aggressive Behavior of Juvenile Offenders
… regulation, negative emotional reactivity, callous-unemotional traits, and socioemotional competence (i.e., identity, self-esteem, communication skills, work orientation, empathy) in overt aggression in a sample of detained juvenile offenders. Clusters were formed based on type and level of …
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Developmental Pathways to Psychopathic Traits in Caucasian and African American Juvenile Offenders
… of psychopathic traits, and more specifically, callous-unemotional traits in youth, may constitute a distinct developmental pathway to aggressive behavior. However, ethnic groups are understudied in this literature such that it is unclear whether the correlates of psychopathic traits (i.e., …
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Assessing Common Variance in Psychopathy Measures
Youth who demonstrate callous and unemotional traits along with aggressive antisocial behaviors are more likely than youth who do not display callous and unemotional traits to continue those acts into adulthood. Similarly there is support in the literature that the psychopathy construct measured in …
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Factors Predicting Therapeutic Alliance in Antisocial Adolescents
… study investigated whether differing levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits influenced the formation of therapeutic alliance in a sample of 51 adjudicated youth in juvenile institutions. Also, we tested whether therapeutic alliance influenced success in the institution and whether this …
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