More recently, studies have focused on child factors and a consistent finding has been that behavioural parent training appears to be less effective in treating conduct problems in children with
high callous - unemotional (CU) traits (e.g., limited empathy and guilt, shallow affect; Hawes et al. 2014).
The CD sample was divided into
higher callous - emotional traits (CD / CU +) and lower callous - unemotional traits (CD / CU --RRB- subgroups using a median split.
Not exact matches
There is a clear consensus that the statement made was
callous and thoughtless, given that last year 46,000 repossessions took place - the
highest level for fifteen years.
High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking,
callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.
I am satisfied that Mr. Dewji's conduct, as the sole director and officer of the defendant corporations, was oppressive,
high - handed,
callous and unfairly prejudicial to the rights and interests of the plaintiffs.
One supposes that the takeaway for employers, directors especially, is that it would be prudent not to treat one's employees in a manner that is «oppressive,
high - handed,
callous and unfairly prejudicial» to the rights and interests of one's employees.
Of note with respect to the issue of damages is that the court declined to award punitive damages, notwithstanding Justice Boswell's finding, in paragraph 23 of his reasons for decision, that, «Mr. Dewji's conduct, as the sole director and officer of the defendant corporations, was oppressive,
high - handed,
callous and unfairly prejudicial to the rights and interests of the plaintiffs.»
Higher family dysfunction scores were associated with increased levels of
callous - unemotional (CU) traits in the children pre-treatment.
It was found that greater dysfunctional representations were significantly associated with
higher CU behaviours but not conduct problems, and that dysfunctional family representations partially accounted for the link between sensitive parenting and later CU behaviours, indicating that the internalization of caregiving may be one of multiple developmental mechanisms contributing to the association between parenting and
callous - unemotional conduct.
Mean scores and standard deviations for
high and low
callous - unemotional traits groups on the Family Drawing Paradigm scales at Time 1 and Time 2
Dadds and his colleagues (2012) found that children with oppositional defiant disorder, who tested
high for Factor 1 (
callous - unemotional) characteristics of psychopathy, showed low levels of eye contact and low levels of affection toward their mothers.
In fact, having less knowledge was related to decreases in parental control, when youths were
high on
callous - unemotional traits.
Citation: Moul C, Dobson - Stone C, Brennan J, Hawes D, Dadds M (2013) An Exploration of the Serotonin System in Antisocial Boys with
High Levels of
Callous - Unemotional Traits.
However, contrary to models positing deficits in affective empathy in individuals with DBDs and
high levels of
callous - unemotional (CU) traits (an index of the affective and interpersonal aspects of psychopathy that can be assessed in children; Blair 2013), affective empathy is reported to be unrelated to levels of CU traits (e.g., Anastassiou - Hadjicharalambous and Warden 2008; Cheng et al. 2012).
Moreover, greater behavioral control for youths
high on
callous - unemotional traits did not lead to parents» greater knowledge about their youths.
The aim of the present study was to assess empathic accuracy (EA), emotion recognition, and affective empathy in male adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) and
higher versus lower levels of
callous - unemotional (CU) traits, using a more ecologically - valid task than has been used previously.
Key: CD / CU - Conduct Disorder with lower levels of
callous - unemotional traits, CD / CU + Conduct Disorder with
higher levels of
callous - unemotional traits, SE standard error
[jounal] Anastassiou - Hadjicharalambous, X. / 2008 / Cognitive and affective perspective - taking in conduct - disordered children
high and low on
callous - unemotional traits / Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2: 16 ~ 26
Specifically, adolescents with
high levels of CU traits report more enjoyment from being cruel,
callous and antagonistic towards others, and less enjoyment from having affiliative, prosocial exchanges with others.
Emotion recognition scores for the typically - developing (TD) and Conduct Disorder (CD) groups (panel a), and the
higher (CD / CU +) and lower (CD / CU --RRB-
callous - unemotional traits subgroups (panel b); error bars show + / − Standard Error.
Affect matches to emotions displayed by targets in the typically - developing (TD) and Conduct Disorder (CD) groups (panel a) and the
higher (CD / CU +) and lower (CD / CU --RRB-
callous - unemotional traits subgroups (panel b); error bars show + / − Standard Error.
A sample of 972
high - school students completed self - report questionnaires assessing
callous - unemotional traits, self - serving cognitive distortions and antisocial behavior.
Key: BCC = body corpus callosum; SCC = splenium corpus callosum; CP = cerebral peduncle; PIC = posterior internal capsule; RIC = retrolenticular internal capsule; SCR = superior corona radiata; PTR = posterior thalamic radiation; SS = sagittal stratum; EC = external capsule; SLF = superior longitudinal fasciculus; PCR = posterior corona radiata; ST = stria terminalis; SFOF = superior fronto - occipital fasciculus; UC = uncinate fasciculus; ACR = anterior corona radiata; GCC = genus corpus callosum; CD = Conduct Disorder; CD / CU + = Conduct Disorder with
high levels of
callous - unemotional traits; CD / CU - = Conduct Disorder with low levels of
callous - unemotional traits; HC = Healthy Controls
The second group scored moderate on the grandiose / manipulative dimension and the
callous / unemotional dimension and
high on the impulsive / irresponsible dimension (impulsive, non-psychopathic-like group).
ADHD = Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder; CD = Conduct Disorder; CD / CU + = Conduct Disorder with
high levels of
callous unemotional traits; CD / CU - = Conduct Disorder with low levels of callous unemotional traits; CU = callous - unemotional; HC = Healthy Controls; IQ = Intelligence Quotient; ICU = Inventory of Callous - Unemotional traits, PESQ = Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; PDS = Pubertal Developmenta
callous unemotional traits; CD / CU - = Conduct Disorder with low levels of
callous unemotional traits; CU = callous - unemotional; HC = Healthy Controls; IQ = Intelligence Quotient; ICU = Inventory of Callous - Unemotional traits, PESQ = Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; PDS = Pubertal Developmenta
callous unemotional traits; CU =
callous - unemotional; HC = Healthy Controls; IQ = Intelligence Quotient; ICU = Inventory of Callous - Unemotional traits, PESQ = Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; PDS = Pubertal Developmenta
callous - unemotional; HC = Healthy Controls; IQ = Intelligence Quotient; ICU = Inventory of
Callous - Unemotional traits, PESQ = Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; PDS = Pubertal Developmenta
Callous - Unemotional traits, PESQ = Personal Experience Screening Questionnaire; PDS = Pubertal Developmental Scale
Empathic Accuracy in Male Adolescents with Conduct Disorder and
Higher versus Lower Levels of
Callous - Unemotional Traits.
Characterising youth with
callous — unemotional traits and concurrent anxiety: evidence for a
high - risk clinical group.
Regression analyses of child and adult measures of child's emotion self - regulation and
callous - unemotional traits, and a child measure of moral emotions, showed that poor emotion regulation, along with low levels of guilt and
high levels of shame, predicted children's externalizing behaviors, while only low levels of guilt predicted a unique subset of child characteristics called
callous - unemotional traits.
Discussion focuses on prevention efforts aimed at teaching emotion self - regulation and the implications of the
high levels of
callous - unemotional traits in this population of children.
Youths from the
high - risk sample scored significantly
higher than youths from the general population sample on all the YPI scales: grandiose - manipulative [10.58 versus 9.38; t (587) = 7.06, p < 0.001],
callous and unemotional [11.01 versus 9.84; t (1218) = 7.77, p < 0.001], and impulsive - irresponsible [12.92 versus 11.36; t (577) = 9.33, p < 0.001].
Meaning that having a
higher score on the YPI
callous and unemotional scale increased the probability for having committed non-violent offenses for youths from the
high - risk sample and not for youths from the general population sample.
Youths from the
high - risk sample with a
higher score on the YPI
callous and unemotional scale had a
higher probability for having committed non-violent offenses than youths scoring low on this scale.