These traits comprise low levels of guilt and shame, and a lack of empathy, and can be thought of as the downward extension of the affective and interpersonal characteristics of
adult psychopathic personality traits [2].
Adult psychopathic personality with childhood - onset hyperactivity and conduct disorder: A central problem constellation in forensic psychiatry.
Not exact matches
Some, but definitively not all, people who have had one or both disorder are at greater risk for antisocial or
psychopathic personalities as
adults.
Many of these children are violent and aggressive and as
adults are at risk of developing a variety of psychological problems and
personality disorders, including antisocial
personality disorder, narcissistic
personality disorder, borderline
personality disorder, and
psychopathic personality disorder.
While CU traits in children are thought of by some as analogous to
psychopathic personality traits in
adults, the relationship between these traits and the function of neurochemical systems may not be the same in child and
adult populations.
The associations between the three factors of psychopathy and
personality traits — assessed by means of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI, Andershed et al. 2002) and the Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI - R; Costa and McCrae 1992)-- were explored in a community sample of 152 male adolescents and yo
personality traits — assessed by means of the Youth
Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI, Andershed et al. 2002) and the Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness
Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI - R; Costa and McCrae 1992)-- were explored in a community sample of 152 male adolescents and yo
Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI - R; Costa and McCrae 1992)-- were explored in a community sample of 152 male adolescents and young
adults.
Furthermore, low levels of serotonin in the basolateral amygdala are related to reductions in the conditioned fear response — a response which is reliably impaired in
adults with high levels of
psychopathic personality (CU traits)[16], [17].