Cognitive and Emotional Profiles of CU Traits and Disruptive Behavior in Adolescence: a Prospective Study

Rydell, Ann‐Margret; Brocki, Karin C.

doi:10.1007/s10802-018-0496-5

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“…Thus, information about the social context is important to understand gendered patterns of media violence consumption. As also reported in our previous study (Rydell, 2016), boys were higher in CU traits. However, in contrast to what we expected, we did not find any gender differences in ADHD symptoms.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Similarly to our previous study (Rydell, 2016) higher levels of CU traits predicted more frequent consumption of violent media, and this relation appeared to be equally true for boys and girls. Further, in comparison with inattention symptoms CU traits came out as the more important predictor.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Willoughby e t al ., 2017; Herpers, Rommelse, Bons, Buitelaar & Scheepers, 2012; Rydell & Brocki, 2019), but have too seldom been considered in studies linking ADHD symptoms and CU traits to violent media use. In our previous study, violent delinquency did not predict media violence use (Rydell, 2016) but delinquent behaviors have been related to violent video games for both boys and girls (Exelmans, Custers & Van den Buick, 2015).…”

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confidence: 77%

“…The low empathy which characterizes CU traits (Barry, Frick, DeShazo, McCoy, Ellis & Looney, 2000; Frick, Bodin & Barry, 2000; Frick, Stickle, Dandreaux & Kimonis, 2005) may make adolescents less disturbed by depictions of distress and interpersonal violence. Rydell (2016) demonstrated longitudinal relations between CU traits, controlling for violent delinquency, and frequent use of violent media. Fanti (2013) reported an association between CU traits and media violence in adolescence, although only when CU traits were combined with conduct problems.…”

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“…Somewhat surprisingly, factors that may predispose young individuals to consume violent media have earned comparatively little attention. This longitudinal study is an extension of a previous investigation (Rydell, 2016) in which we explored the effects of violent delinquency and callous‐unemotional (in the following abbreviated CU) traits on later violent media use in adolescence, finding the latter as the most important predictor. Here, we investigated ADHD symptoms as predictors of violent media use, in comparison with the impact of CU traits.…”

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ADHD symptoms and callous‐unemotional traits as predictors of violent media use in adolescence

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2020

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We investigated ADHD symptoms and CU traits as predictors of violent media use in adolescence, controlling for delinquency and ODD symptoms. The effects on of disinhibition and arousal to negative stimuli, core characteristics of ADHD symptoms and CU traits, and of gender were investigated. At age 15, 88 adolescents, 50 % boys reported on CU traits, ADHD symptoms and delinquency. Parents rated the adolescents’ CU traits, ADHD‐ and ODD symptoms. At age 16, adolescents reported on their media habits and performed tests of disinhibition and arousal to negative stimuli. Boys had higher levels of CU traits and violent media use and girls had higher levels of arousal to negative pictures. CU traits and inattention symptoms predicted violent media use, the latter association applying only to boys, with CU traits being the strongest predictor. Low arousal to threat pictures explained variance in violent media use, above CU traits. Attraction to violent media seems affected by problem behaviors, with CU traits coming forth as especially important.

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Trait impulsivity and callous‐unemotional traits as predictors of inhibitory control and risky choices among high‐risk adolescents

Leshem

King

2020

Int J Psychol

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Trait impulsivity and callous‐unemotional traits are associated with behavioural problems among high‐risk adolescents. While both are known to influence behaviour, the nature of their expression in high‐risk behaviours, particularly those related to inhibitory control, is not well understood. In the current, preliminary study, we examined whether and how these traits predicted deficits in behaviour driven by bottom‐up, automatic versus deliberate, top‐down inhibitory processes among high‐risk adolescents. Two go/no‐go task variants, emotional and non‐emotional, were used to assess reactive response inhibition, and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task was used to assess the ability to resist deliberate risky choices. The results showed that the two types of self‐reported trait measures were differentially associated with performance on the two types of behavioural inhibition tasks. Trait impulsivity predicted non‐emotional inhibitory control whereas callous‐unemotional traits predicted risky choices. The results also showed that the emotions task elicited slower reaction times and higher false alarm rates than did the letters task, and that participants had greater difficulty inhibiting responses to negatively than to positively valenced no‐go stimuli. While preliminary, the results suggest that the interplay between trait impulsivity and callous‐unemotional traits is an important determinant of inhibitory behaviour in this high‐risk adolescents.

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Emotion recognition profiles in clusters of youth based on levels of callous-unemotional traits and reactive and proactive aggression

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Youth with disruptive behavior showing high callous-unemotional (CU) traits and proactive aggression are often assumed to exhibit distinct impairments in emotion recognition from those showing mainly reactive aggression. Yet, reactive and proactive aggression and CU traits may co-occur to varying degrees across individuals. We aimed to investigate emotion recognition in more homogeneous clusters based on these three dimensions. In a sample of 243 youth (149 with disruptive behavior problems and 94 controls) aged 8–18 years, we used model-based clustering on self-report measures of CU traits and reactive and proactive aggression and compared the resulting clusters on emotion recognition (accuracy and response bias) and working memory. In addition to a Low and Low-Moderate symptom cluster, we identified two high CU clusters. The CU-Reactive cluster showed high reactive and low-to-medium proactive aggression; the CU-Mixed cluster showed high reactive and proactive aggression. Both CU clusters showed impaired fear recognition and working memory, whereas the CU-Reactive cluster also showed impaired recognition of disgust and sadness, partly explained by poor working memory, as well as a response bias for anger and happiness. Our results confirm the importance of CU traits as a core dimension along which youth with disruptive behavior may be characterized, yet challenge the view that high CU traits are closely linked to high proactive aggression per se. Notably, distinct neurocognitive processes may play a role in youth with high CU traits and reactive aggression with lower versus higher proactive aggression.

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Cognitive and Emotional Profiles of CU Traits and Disruptive Behavior in Adolescence: a Prospective Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 71 publications

ADHD symptoms and callous‐unemotional traits as predictors of violent media use in adolescence

ADHD symptoms and callous‐unemotional traits as predictors of violent media use in adolescence

Trait impulsivity and callous‐unemotional traits as predictors of inhibitory control and risky choices among high‐risk adolescents

Emotion recognition profiles in clusters of youth based on levels of callous-unemotional traits and reactive and proactive aggression

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