Associations Between Parental Psychopathic Traits, Parenting, and Adolescent Callous-Unemotional Traits.

ABSTRACT: Callous-unemotional (CU) traits (i.e., callousness, low empathy, shallow affect) have been conceptualized as a downward extension of the interpersonal and affective components of adult psychopathy and are associated with stable and severe antisocial behavior. Research suggests that CU traits are moderately heritable, but also influenced by environmental factors, particularly parenting. We examined associations among mother and father psychopathic traits, parenting practices, and offspring CU traits in a community sample of 550 adolescent twins (Mean age = 13.99 years; SD 2.37; 56.4% male), incorporating multiple informants (mothers, fathers, child). Parental interpersonal-affective psychopathic traits were associated with adolescent CU traits and negative parenting (increased harshness, re

SUBMITTER: Dotterer HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8455443 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature