Can a Laboratory Measure of Emotional Processing Enhance the Statistical Prediction of Aggression and Delinquency in Detained Adolescents with Callous-Unemotional Traits?

Autor/inn/en	Kimonis, Eva R.; Frick, Paul J.; Munoz, Luna C.; Aucoin, Katherine J.
Titel	Can a Laboratory Measure of Emotional Processing Enhance the Statistical Prediction of Aggression and Delinquency in Detained Adolescents with Callous-Unemotional Traits?
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35 (2007) 5, S.773-785 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-007-9136-1
Schlagwörter	Prediction; Adolescents; Delinquency; Cognitive Processes; Aggression; Case Studies; African Americans; Personality Traits; Violence; Evaluation Methods; Law Enforcement; Emotional Response; Task Analysis; Responses; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorhersage; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kriminalität; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Afroamerikaner; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Gewalt; Gesetzesvollzug; Emotionales Verhalten; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	In this cross-sectional study, we investigated whether the combination of the presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and emotional deficits to distressing stimuli, assessed by a computerized dot-probe task, enhanced the statistical prediction of aggression and delinquency in a sample of 88 detained and predominantly African-American (68%) adolescents (M age = 15.57; SD = 1.28). Overall, self-reported CU traits were associated with self-report measures of aggression and delinquency, but not with official records of arrests. However, there was an interaction between CU traits and emotional deficits for predicting self-reported aggression, self-reported violent delinquency, and a record of violent arrests. Youth high on CU traits and who showed a deficit in their responses to visual depictions of distress showed the highest levels of aggression and violent delinquency. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10