Purpose

To examine prognostic and incremental values of grandiose-deceitful interpersonal style, callous-unemotional traits and impulsivity-need for stimulation, and their ability to predict conduct problems and different types of aggressive behavior above and beyond well-established risk factors, including early childhood hyperactivity, aggression, and parenting styles in a community sample of very young children.

Methods

Using data from the ECLAT study, a 5-year prospective/longitudinal study of 175 elementary school children in Croatia (80 boys/95 girls; M_{First_assessment} = 5.28 years and M_{Last_assessment} = 10.33 years), hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to evaluate the utility of children's psychopathy features.

Results

Analyses revealed that, after controlling for individual and parenting risk factors at age 5, only impulsivity-need for stimulation was an independent, albeit weak, predictor of conduct problems at age 10, but not aggression. In addition, the multidimensional child psychopathy construct (i.e., high levels on all three psychopathic traits) at age 5 in combination with concurrent conduct problems was the strongest predictor of future negative outcomes above and beyond other risk factors, but only of conduct problems.

Conclusions

After both individual and parenting factors are taken into account, psychopathic traits individually have limited usefulness when predicting future antisocial behavior but may be important in prediction when all three psychopathic traits are elevated and co-occur with conduct problems in a community sample of young children.

中文翻译：

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当考虑其他危险因素时，精神病性状是否能预示行为问题和攻击性？克罗地亚儿童的纵向测试

目的

研究人际交往欺骗方式的预后价值和增量值，需要刺激的无情情绪特征和冲动性，以及他们预测行为问题和超出公认的风险因素（包括儿童多动症）以外的不同类型的攻击行为的能力年幼儿童的社区样本中的性格，攻击性和养育方式。

方法

使用来自ECLAT研究的数据，对克罗地亚175名小学生（80名男孩/ 95名女孩； M _{First_assessment}  = 5.28岁，M _{Last_assessment}  = 10.33岁）进行了为期5年的前瞻性/纵向研究，进行了层次回归分析以评估儿童心理功能的实用性。

结果

分析显示，在控制了5岁时的个人和父母风险因素后，只有冲动需要的刺激才是10岁时行为问题的独立预测因子，尽管微弱，但并没有侵略性。另外，五岁时的多维儿童心理疾病构造（即，所有三个精神病性状的水平都很高）与并发的行为问题相结合，是未来除了其他风险因素之外的负面结果的最强预测因子，但仅是行为问题。

结论

在考虑了个人因素和育儿因素之后，精神病性状在预测未来的反社会行为时各自的作用有限，但在所有三个精神病性状都升高并且与社区儿童的行为问题同时发生时，精神病性状在预测中可能很重要。