The Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Behavioral and Academic Adjustment in Children: Further Validation of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits

Ciucci, Enrica; Baroncelli, Andrea; Franchi, Marta; Golmaryami, Farrah N.; Frick, Paul J.

doi:10.1007/s10862-013-9384-z

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“…Together, these results suggest that CU traits are associated with considerable psychiatric treatment needs. Moreover, CU traits were significantly associated with social problems, and this is consistent with previous research (9,60,61).…”

Section: Construct Validitysupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Cronbach's alpha and mean inter-item correlations were all acceptable as judged by conventional standards (99,106), and they were comparable with those previously published (50,(60)(61)(62)70,107). Inspection of the item-total correlations did not suggest that the removal of any items could improve the ICU scales' internal consistency as measured by Cronbach's alpha, except for item 10 ("I do not let my feelings control me").…”

Section: Reliability: Internal Consistency Test-retest Reliability supporting

confidence: 79%

“…In addition, the studies have provided evidence in support of the ICU's construct validity by demonstrating associations with delinquency, aggression, reduced empathy, various personality dimensions, and psychophysiological measures of emotional reactivity. These studies have also demonstrated differential associations between the ICU's three subscales and important external criteria, thereby elucidating how the different dimensions of CU traits are related to various aspects of personality functioning, psychopathology, and aggression (50,(60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67). Overall, the ICU seems to have overcome some of the psychometric limitations of previous scales.…”

Section: Assessment Of Callous-unemotional Traitsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Studies of the factor structure of the ICU generally suggest that a bifactor structure fits the data best, with a general CU factor (the total scale) accounting for covariance among all items, and three subfactors (uncaring, callousness, and unemotional) capturing unique patterns of covariance among subsets of the items (50,(60)(61)(62). However, a recent study by Feilhauer and colleagues (63) failed to replicate this factor structure.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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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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“…The higher the score is, the severer the callous unemotional traits will be. ICU has shown enough internal consistency in a sample of 540 students aged 10-16, (α > 0.66) (21). In the current study, we used self-report version of the scale and the Cronbach's α was found to be 0.70 for total scale and 0.64, 0.68 and 0.48 for callousness, uncaring and unemotional dimensions, respectively.…”

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Conduct Disorder in Student: The Predicting Role of Emotion Regulation, Callous-Unemotional Traits and Schema

2017

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Background: The fact that emotional dysregulation and early maladaptive schemas are considered as the defining core of conduct disorder has been validated through numerous studies. A strong association between the diagnosis of conduct disorder and callousunemotional traits has also been found by numerous studies. Objectives: This study was carried out in order to inspect the relationship between conduct disorder and emotion regulation, callous-unemotional traits, and schema in male high-school students in Dezfoul, SW Iran. Methods: In the present descriptive correlational study, 320 male high school students were chosen in Dezfoul, using the multistage random sampling. Data collection was carried out using some instruments including the child behavior checklist (CBCL), difficulties in emotion-regulation scale (DERS) inventory of callous-unemotional traits (ICUT) young schema questionnaire-short form. The collected data were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis and the pearson correlation coefficient. Results:The results indicated a meaningfully positive correlation between emotion regulation, callous-unemotional traits and schema with conduct disorder. In addition, the results of multivariate regression analysis showed that among the above-mentioned variables studied, callous-unemotional trait was found to be the most effective predicting variable in conduct disorder (P < 0.001). Conclusions:The findings of this study are in full agreement with those of previous ones, and basically show a significant association between callous-unemotional traits, emotion regulation and schema with conduct disorder.

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Personality Factors, Empathy, and Moral Disengagement in Bullying

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Gini²,

Malti³

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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Bullying

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The Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Behavioral and Academic Adjustment in Children: Further Validation of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits

Cited by 155 publications

References 32 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

Conduct Disorder in Student: The Predicting Role of Emotion Regulation, Callous-Unemotional Traits and Schema

Personality Factors, Empathy, and Moral Disengagement in Bullying

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