I can't feel your face: callous-unemotional traits, social anxiety, and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Conduct disorders are associated with deficits in interpersonal behaviour. Both, callous-unemotional traits and social anxiety are often elevated in patients with conduct disorder and are associated with aggressive approach or disproportional avoidance. Previous studies have focused mainly on questionnaire reports of interpersonal behaviour, whereas direct explicit and implicit interpersonal behaviour in social contexts has not been considered sufficiently. Therefore, explicit and implicit interpersonal behaviour were investigated in children and adolescents with conduct disorder in the current study.

Methods

Forty male adolescent inpatients with conduct disorder and 30 typically developing controls (M_age = 12.5, SD = 1.39) took part in a

SUBMITTER: Derks LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11603866 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature