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The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study
(2004)This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759). It also considered ...
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Callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescents
(American Psychological Association Inc, 2014)The presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits designates a subgroup of antisocial youth at risk for severe, aggressive, and stable conduct problems. As a result, these traits should be considered as part of the criteria ...
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Linking callous-unemotional traits to instrumental and non-instrumental forms of aggression
(2009)The current study investigated the relation of callous-unemotional (CU) traits to bullying, victimization, and proactive and reactive aggression. We also examined whether CU traits will be more strongly related to groups ...
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Maltreatment Profiles Among Incarcerated Boys With Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2013)Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in youth are believed to be a developmental precursor to adult psychopathy, tapping its affective dimension. There is growing support for the existence of variants of psychopathy that can ...
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Psychometric properties and prognostic usefulness of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) as a component of a clinical protocol for detained youth: A multiethnic examination
(American Psychological Association Inc, 2017)Prior studies have shown that the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) holds promise as a self-report tool for assessing psychopathic traits in detained adolescents. However, these studies have been conducted in a ...
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Psychopathic personality traits in 5 year old twins: the importance of genetic and shared environmental influences
(Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH and Co. KG, 2017)There is limited research on the genetic and environmental bases of psychopathic personality traits in children. In this study, psychopathic personality traits were assessed in a total of 1189 5-year-old boys and girls ...
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Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2016)According to the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking, sensation seeking and impulse control follow different developmental trajectories across adolescence and are governed by two different brain systems. The authors ...
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Using self-reported callous-unemotional traits to cross-nationally assess the DSM-5 'With Limited Prosocial Emotions' specifier
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2015)Background The presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits designates an important subgroup of antisocial youth at risk for severe, persistent, and impairing conduct problems. As a result, the fifth revision of the Diagnostic ...