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dc.contributor.authorFanti, Kostas A.en
dc.contributor.authorPanayiotou, Georgiaen
dc.contributor.authorLazarou, Chrysostomosen
dc.contributor.authorMichael, R.en
dc.contributor.authorGeorgiou, G.en
dc.creatorFanti, Kostas A.en
dc.creatorPanayiotou, Georgiaen
dc.creatorLazarou, Chrysostomosen
dc.creatorMichael, R.en
dc.creatorGeorgiou, G.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T10:21:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T10:21:42Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn09545794 (ISSN)
dc.identifier.urihttps://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/37278
dc.description.abstractThe present study examines whether heterogeneous groups of children identified based on their longitudinal scores on conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits differ on physiological and behavioral measures of fear. Specifically, it aims to test the hypothesis that children with high/stable CP differentiated on CU traits score on opposite directions on a fear-fearless continuum. Seventy-three participants (M age = 11.21; 45.2% female) were selected from a sample of 1,200 children. Children and their parents completed a battery of questionnaires assessing fearfulness, sensitivity to punishment, and behavioral inhibition. Children also participated in an experiment assessing their startle reactivity to fearful mental imagery, a well-established index of defensive motivation. The pattern of results verifies the hypothesis that fearlessness, assessed with physiological and behavioral measures, is a core characteristic of children high on both CP and CU traits (i.e., receiving the DSM-5 specifier of limited prosocial emotions). To the contrary, children with high/stable CP and low CU traits demonstrated high responsiveness to fear, high behavioral inhibition, and high sensitivity to punishment. The study is in accord with the principle of equifinality, in that different developmental mechanisms (i.e., extremes of high and low fear) may have the same behavioral outcome manifested as phenotypic antisocial behavior. © Cambridge University Press 2015.en
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.sourceDevelopment and psychopathologyen
dc.source.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84954399980&doi=10.1017%2fS0954579415000371&partnerID=40&md5=d981de90c6bafeca09cf894604a1ea11
dc.subjectAntisocial personality disorderen
dc.subjectChilden
dc.subjectConduct disorderen
dc.subjectEmotionen
dc.subjectFearen
dc.subjectFemaleen
dc.subjectHumanen
dc.subjectLongitudinal studyen
dc.subjectMaleen
dc.subjectParenten
dc.subjectPathophysiologyen
dc.subjectPhysiologyen
dc.subjectProblem behavioren
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.subjectQuestionnaireen
dc.subjectStartle reflexen
dc.subjectEmotionsen
dc.subjectHumansen
dc.subjectLongitudinal studiesen
dc.subjectParentsen
dc.subjectReflex, startleen
dc.subjectSurveys and questionnairesen
dc.titleThe better of two evils? Evidence that children exhibiting continuous conduct problems high or low on callous-unemotional traits score on opposite directions on physiological and behavioral measures of fearen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0954579415000371
dc.description.volume28
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.startingpage185
dc.description.endingpage198
dc.author.facultyΣχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / Faculty of Social Sciences and Education
dc.author.departmentΤμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology
dc.type.uhtypeArticleen
dc.description.notesJ2: Dev. Psychopathol.; Cited By :18; Export Date: 12 July 2017; CODEN: DPESB; Correspondence Address: Fanti, K.A.; University of Cyprus, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 20537, Cyprus; email: kfanti@ucy.ac.cyen
dc.source.abbreviationDev.Psychopathol.en
dc.contributor.orcidFanti, Kostas A. [0000-0002-3484-7483]
dc.contributor.orcidPanayiotou, Georgia [0000-0003-2471-9960]
dc.gnosis.orcid0000-0002-3484-7483
dc.gnosis.orcid0000-0003-2471-9960


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