Symptoms
of distress, depression, anxiety and stress were
significantly higher and
levels of well - being were
significantly lower in trainees compared with consultants, and this was not accounted for by differences in sociodemographic variables.
Moreover, a study by Kimonis et al. (2006) used the Dot - probe paradigm (an attentional task that indexes attentional orientation patterns for emotional stimuli) with serious male adolescent offenders, revealing that those who had
high levels of both CU traits and anxiety symptoms oriented
significantly more their attention toward emotionally
distressing pictures, as compared to those with
high levels of CU traits but low anxiety, who were not engaged by these stimuli (Kimonis et al., 2012).