Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and psychopathy: A systematic review

Moreira, Diana; Moreira, Diana; Oliveira, Susana; Ribeiro, Filipe Nunes; Barbosa, Fernando; Fávero, Marisalva; Gomes, Valéria

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2020.101452

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“…The aim of the present study was to examine trauma effects on antisocial or externalizing outcomes among youth and the role of psychopathy as a mediator between trauma and those externalizing outcomes. Although trauma and psychopathy are relevant factors to the study of externalizing outcomes among youth (Abram et al, 2004; Baglivio et al, 2020; Farina et al, 2018; Moreira et al, 2020), the nature of their relation remains unclear. Moreover, there is a gap in the literature in terms of simultaneously examining the effects of trauma events and trauma reactions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although both psychopathy and trauma clearly relate to conduct problems among youth (for a systematic review, see Moreira et al, 2020), prior research indicated complex and multifaceted linkages between trauma, psychopathy, and delinquency. Several currents exist in the literature.…”

Section: Psychopathy and Trauma Among Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although trauma and psychopathy are recurrent in conduct problems among youth (cf., Baglivio, 2019; Farina et al, 2018; Ford & Blaustein, 2013; Moreira et al, 2020; Pechorro et al, 2014; Zettler, 2021), it remains unclear how they are interrelated. One reason for the multitudinous research findings in the literature is that trauma exposure is usually modeled without considering reactions to the trauma, such as symptoms of post-traumatic stress.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Trauma, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Outcomes Among Community Youth: Distinguishing Trauma Events From Trauma Reactions

DeLisi

Pechorro

Gonçalves

et al. 2020

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Psychopathy and trauma exposure are robustly associated with youth conduct problems, but the interrelation of these constructs is unclear. The objective of the present study is to examine psychopathy mediation effects related to trauma events and trauma reactions and juvenile delinquency, conduct disorder, crime seriousness, and proactive overt aggression outcomes. The sample consisted of N =388 ( M = 16.01 years, SD = 1.03 years, age range = 13–18 years) male youths from Portugal. Path analysis procedures revealed that psychopathy partially mediates the relation between trauma events and the juvenile delinquency, conduct disorder, crime seriousness outcomes, and fully mediates the relation between trauma events and the proactive overt aggression outcome. Trauma reactions have no direct significant effect on psychopathy, and psychopathy does not mediate the relation between trauma reactions and the examined outcomes. Research on trauma and adverse childhood experiences should encompass both events and reactions to those events as they have differential associations with psychopathy and externalizing outcomes. Trauma-informed service, supervision, and treatment is essential for understanding antisocial development and psychological maladjustment among youth.

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Section: Psychopathy and Trauma Among Youthmentioning

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Section: Current Aimmentioning

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Trauma, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Outcomes Among Community Youth: Distinguishing Trauma Events From Trauma Reactions

DeLisi

Pechorro

Gonçalves

et al. 2020

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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“…47 Parents are known to use harsh parenting where children have callous-unemotional traits along with conduct problems or other externalising behavior problems, such as ODD, compared to CU traits alone. 48 Additional layers of oppositionality among children with psychopathic traits may evoke greater risk for parental maltreatment. Core de cits in children with psychopathic traits, such as their ability to recognize others' distress cues 43 and pervasive lack of concern for others' feelings, 44 are likely to engender negative behaviors from peers and parents, particularly where the latter are also experiencing NDDs, compromising parenting capacity.…”

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Interpersonal trauma and its relation to childhood psychopathic traits: what does ADHD and ODD add to the equation?

Marshall¹,

Sörman²,

Durbeej³

et al. 2020

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Background Childhood trauma has demonstrated associations with callous-unemotional traits (e.g., reflecting lack of remorse and guilt, unconcern about own performance). Less is known about associations between trauma and multiple domains of child psychopathic traits. There has also been limited focus on the role of co-occurring disorders to psychopathy traits among children, namely, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and how they interact with childhood trauma. Methods We examined to what degree childhood interpersonal trauma can predict parent-rated psychopathic traits in a large population based Swedish twin sample (N = 5057), using a stringent definition of interpersonal trauma occurring before age 10. Two hundred and fifty-one participants met the interpersonal trauma criteria for analysis. The study explored the additional impact of traits of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Results Linear regressions demonstrated statistically significant but clinically negligible effects of interpersonal trauma on total and subscale scores of parent-rated psychopathic traits. When exploring interaction effects of ADHD and ODD into the model, the effect increased. There were interaction effects between ODD and trauma in relation to psychopathic traits, suggesting a mediating role of ODD. Having been exposed to trauma before age 10 was significantly associated with higher parent rated psychopathy traits as measured by The Child Problematic Traits Inventory-Short Version (CPTI-SV), however the explained variance was small (0.3–0.9%). Conclusions The results challenge the notion of association between interpersonal trauma and youth psychopathic traits. They also highlight the need to gain an improved understanding of overlap between psychopathic traits, ADHD and ODD for clinical screening purposes and the underlying developmental mechanisms.

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“…These experiences, be it one time events, or ongoing circumstances, are referred to as early life adversity (ELA) and have been the subject of a multitude of studies. The vast majority of which have presented strong evidence that such experiences have a strong and cumulative impact on adult health; with links being made to negative physical and psychological health outcomes (Felitti et al, 1998;Kessler et al 1997;Moreira et al 2020). An association between ELA and all classes of disorders, including both internalising and externalising, throughout the life course, in which ELAs trigger, maintain, aggravate and increase the prevalence and recurrence of psychiatric disorders has been demonstrated in a multitude of studies (Kessler et al, 2010).…”

Section: Early Life Adversitymentioning

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Internalising and Externalising in Parents and Offspring: The Impact of Sex and Early Life Adversity

O'Neill-Murchison¹

2021

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<p>The aim of this study was to investigate associations between maternal and paternal externalising, experiences of early life adversity (ELA), internalising and externalising in adult offspring, and the role of sex. Using data collected in wave three of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) we utilised structural equation modelling to test a hypothesised moderated mediation model associating maternal and paternal externalising, and internalising and externalising in offspring, mediated by early life adversities and moderated by sex. Our study included a total of n=26,728 participants which were randomly split into two groups and analysed separately to test whether it was possible to replicate our own results. No direct association was demonstrated between maternal externalising or paternal externalising and internalising or externalising in offspring; experiences of ELA were associated only with internalising in offspring, but not with externalising; ELA was associated with maternal externalising and paternal externalising in females only. The relationship between paternal externalising and internalising in male offspring was mediated by ELA, as was the relationship between maternal externalising and internalising in male offspring. The relationship between parental externalising and internalising in females however was not mediated by ELA. Results did not provide support for the study’s hypotheses.</p>

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Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and psychopathy: A systematic review

Cited by 41 publications

References 88 publications

Trauma, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Outcomes Among Community Youth: Distinguishing Trauma Events From Trauma Reactions

Trauma, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Outcomes Among Community Youth: Distinguishing Trauma Events From Trauma Reactions

Interpersonal trauma and its relation to childhood psychopathic traits: what does ADHD and ODD add to the equation?

Internalising and Externalising in Parents and Offspring: The Impact of Sex and Early Life Adversity

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