The study of psychopathic traits in youth is in its nascent stages and the nature and the structure of these traits is still poorly understood. In one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the construct validity of the widely used Antisocial Processing Screening Device (APSD), we used two independent samples of youth, one community (N = 2203) and one clinic-referred (N = 534), ages 4 to 19 (51% female), to investigate the external correlates of the Callous-unemotionality (CU), Narcissism, and Impulsivity dimensions of youth psychopathy. We used parent reports of externalizing and internalizing psychopathology, personality, and aggressive behavior to examine the pattern of associations between psychopathic trait dimensions and relevant external correlates. Across both samples, CU was positively related to all forms of externalizing psychopathology and aggression, mostly unrelated to internalizing psychopathology, and negatively related to agreeableness and conscientiousness. Narcissism and Impulsivity were positively related to externalizing psychopathology, and aggression, negatively related to agreeableness and conscientiousness, and weakly positively related to internalizing psychopathology. In most cases, each dimension of the APSD manifested statistically significantly different relations with these external correlates. Many of our findings replicate and extend work conducted with both youth and adults, although others suggest that these dimensions do not distinguish among psychopathological domains in conceptually expected ways. Broadly speaking, these findings provide evidence that psychopathic traits in youth are best characterized by a multidimensional model and bear implications for models integrating normative with pathological personality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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构建由反社会过程筛查装置评估的青少年精神病特征的有效性。


对青少年精神病特征的研究还处于起步阶段，人们对这些特征的性质和结构仍然知之甚少。在迄今为止对广泛使用的反社会处理筛查设备 (APSD) 的构建有效性进行的最全面的分析之一中，我们使用了两个独立的青少年样本，一个社区样本 (N = 2203) 和一个诊所转介样本 (N = 534) ，年龄 4 至 19 岁（51% 女性），调查青年精神病态的冷酷无情 (CU)、自恋和冲动维度的外部相关性。我们利用家长关于外化和内化精神病理学、人格和攻击行为的报告来研究精神病特质维度与相关外部相关因素之间的关联模式。在这两个样本中，CU 与所有形式的外化精神病理学和攻击性呈正相关，大多数与内化精神病理学无关，与宜人性和尽责性呈负相关。自恋和冲动与外化精神病理学呈正相关，而攻击性与宜人性和尽责性呈负相关，与内化精神病理学呈弱正相关。在大多数情况下，APSD 的每个维度都与这些外部相关因素表现出统计上显着不同的关系。我们的许多研究结果复制并扩展了对青少年和成人进行的研究，尽管其他研究表明这些维度并没有以概念上预期的方式区分精神病理学领域。从广义上讲，这些发现提供的证据表明，多维模型可以最好地表征青少年的精神病态特征，并对规范性人格与病态人格相结合的模型具有影响。 （PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。