Associations among Cruelty to Animals, Family Conflict, and Psychopathic Traits in Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Dadds, Mark R.; Whiting, Clare; Hawes, David J.
Titel	Associations among Cruelty to Animals, Family Conflict, and Psychopathic Traits in Childhood
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (2006) 3, S.411-429 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260505283341
Schlagwörter	Family Problems; Child Rearing; Empathy; Conflict; Animals; Family Relationship; Children; Family Influence; Aggression; Prediction; Multiple Regression Analysis; Behavior Problems; Individual Characteristics; Correlation; Psychopathology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkrise; Kindererziehung; Empathie; Konflikt; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Child; Kind; Kinder; Vorhersage; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation; Psychopathologie
Abstract	Previous research has produced mixed findings on the role of child and family factors in the genesis of childhood cruelty. The authors examined the relationships of cruelty to animals to a range of child and family factors. First, the authors test the idea that cruelty is a callous aggression that will be more strongly associated with psychopathic (callous or unemotional, CU) traits than general externalizing problems. Second, the authors operationalize family problems as open conflict rather than parenting problems as used earlier. Results indicated that for both genders, CU traits were associated strongly with cruelty. For boys, externalizing problems also added prediction in regression analyses. Family conflict was not associated with cruelty for either. These results suggest that cruelty to animals may be an early manifestation of the subgroup of children developing conduct problems associated with traits of low empathy and callous disregard rather than the more common pathway of externalizing problems and parenting problems. (Contains 1 note, 3 tables and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10