Assessing callous–unemotional traits across different groups of youths: Further cross-cultural validation of the Inventory of Callous–Unemotional Traits

Feilhauer, Johanna; Cima, Maaike; Arntz, Arnoud

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.04.002

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“…However, a recent study by Feilhauer and colleagues (63) failed to replicate this factor structure. Alpha coefficients for the ICU scales in past research have generally ranged from .77 to .89, thereby indicating acceptable reliability.…”

Section: Assessment Of Callous-unemotional Traitsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The study by Fink and colleagues (70) investigated the validity associations of the ICU with the PCL:YV in a sample of incarcerated adolescent American boys and girls and found the scales to be only somewhat weakly correlated and to have no significant discriminative validity in terms of differentiating between high and low psychopathy groups as identified by the PCL:YV. The study by Feilhauer and colleagues (63) examined the relationship between the two instruments in a sample comprised of Dutch detained adolescents. In this study, the researchers reported very weak and non-significant associations between the ICU and the PCL:YV total scale.…”

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Assessment of the Affective Dimensions of Psychopathy with the Danish version of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among Incarcerated Boys: A study of Reliability, Criterion Validity, and Construct Validity

Kongerslev

Forth

et al. 2014

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background: Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have been found to index an important subgroup of antisocial youth who are at high risk for developing psychopathic personality pathology, and for becoming severe and persistent offenders. On the basis of such research findings, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, have included a "with limited prosocial emotions" specifier in the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder to designate a subtype with high levels of CU traits. This creates the need for psychometrically sound measures for the assessment of these traits. The self-report questionnaire Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) was designed to provide an efficient, reliable, and valid measure of CU traits among youth populations. Method: Eighty Danish adolescent boys between the ages of 15 to 18 years in secure institutions were assessed concurrently with the ICU, the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), self-report measures of aggression and empathy, and ratings of psychosocial problems. Approximately nine days later, the ICU was readministered in a subset of the sample (n = 40) to examine test-retest reliability. Results: Internal consistency was satisfactory, and test-retest reliability was excellent. Concurrent validity associations with the PCL:YV ranged from moderate to high. The ICU displayed excellent discriminative validity for identifying persons who displayed high levels of psychopathic traits. CU traits were also found to be associated with psychosocial impairments, aggression, and reduced empathy. Conclusions: Overall, these findings support the reliability; construct validity, and criterion validity of the ICU.

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confidence: 99%

Assessment of the Affective Dimensions of Psychopathy with the Danish version of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among Incarcerated Boys: A study of Reliability, Criterion Validity, and Construct Validity

Kongerslev

Forth

et al. 2014

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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“…Research confirms the relationship between narcissism, as measured by the NPI, and psychopathic traits among youth finding a positive association between the more maladaptive aspects of narcissism (e.g. Exhibitionism, Exploitativeness, and Entitlement) and measures of callous-unemotional traits (Barry, Frick, & Killian, 2003;Feilhauer, Cima, & Arntz, 2012). Several recent studies have found positive correlations between narcissism, as measured by the original NPI and NPI-16, and psychopathic, Machiavellian, and sadistic traits (NPI: Andershed, Gustafson, Kerr, & Stattin, 2002;NPI-16: Chabrol et al, 2009).…”

Section: Narcissism and Juvenile Delinquencymentioning

confidence: 59%

“…callousunemotional traits), making it impossible to determine how these relationships might manifest in a more homogenous sample of juvenile offenders. Additionally, few studies have examined the NPI cross-culturally, with the exception of Ang and Yusof (2005) who utilized a Japanese sample and Feilhauer et al (2012) who utilized a Dutch sample. Thus, more research is needed to assess the psychometric properties of the NPI and its short versions among culturally distinct samples.…”

Section: Narcissism and Juvenile Delinquencymentioning

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Adaptation of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory among a Portuguese sample of incarcerated juvenile offenders

Pechorro

Gentile

Ray

et al. 2016

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…All of the items on the ICU can be scored on a 4-point scale where 0= not at all true, 1=sometimes true, 2=almost true and 3=absolutely true. Scores can be most reliable interpreted on the total score [29]. The total score ranges between 0 to 72, in which the higher the score, the more CU traits present.…”

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confidence: 99%

Don’t you Dare Look at me, or else: Negative and Aggressive Interpretation Bias, Callous Unemotional Traits and Type of Aggression

Cima¹

2014

J Child Adolesc Behav

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The aim of the present study was to examine whether there is a relation between a negative/aggressive interpretation bias, different types of aggression, and callous-unemotional traits in (delinquent) juveniles. We examined this research question in 2 different studies. The first study examines the relationship between a social negative interpretation bias with different types of aggression and callous-unemotional traits in 42 juvenile delinquent boys from a Juridical Youth Institution Centre and 29 healthy juvenile controls from a local high school in the Netherlands. Results showed that a negative interpretation bias was related to callous-unemotional traits, but specifically within the delinquent group. In the second study we examined this research question in more detail, using 3 different groups and two different measurements of a negative and aggressive interpretation bias (i.e., explicit vs. implicit measurement, respectively). This second study included 88 male participants ranging from 13 to 25 years. Subjects were now recruited from a local high school (healthy controls), an education project (at risk group) and from a Juridical Youth Institution (juvenile group). In the three different groups, there emerged different meaningful correlates. While in the healthy control group there were no significant correlates of a negative interpretation bias, for the two other groups some meaningful correlates were found. Within the at risk group, an aggressive interpretation bias was related to reactive aggression. Within the delinquent group, a negative interpretation bias was significantly related to reactive aggression, while an aggressive interpretation bias was significantly related to proactive aggression. So over the two studies, specifically within the delinquent groups, a negative interpretation bias seems positively related to aggression and callous-unemotional traits. These findings might indicate that the tendency to make negative or aggressive interpretations of potential innocuous situations might form an important mechanism underlying the relation between aggressive acts and the presence of elevated aggression and callous unemotional traits.

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Assessing callous–unemotional traits across different groups of youths: Further cross-cultural validation of the Inventory of Callous–Unemotional Traits

Cited by 99 publications

References 48 publications

Assessment of the Affective Dimensions of Psychopathy with the Danish version of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among Incarcerated Boys: A study of Reliability, Criterion Validity, and Construct Validity

Assessment of the Affective Dimensions of Psychopathy with the Danish version of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among Incarcerated Boys: A study of Reliability, Criterion Validity, and Construct Validity

Adaptation of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory among a Portuguese sample of incarcerated juvenile offenders

Don’t you Dare Look at me, or else: Negative and Aggressive Interpretation Bias, Callous Unemotional Traits and Type of Aggression

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