TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Studying configurations of psychopathic traits: exploring the viability of psychopathic personality in early childhood
JO  - Journal of personality disorders
A1  - Lopez-Romero, Laura
A1  - Romero, Estrella
A1  - Salekin, Randall T.
A1  - Andershed, Henrik
A1  - Colins, Olivier F.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The idea that very young children can manifest a constellation of personality traits that looks like psychopathy has rarely been explored. To fill this void, data from 2,247 children, aged 3-6 years (M = 4.25; SD = 0.91), from the Estudio Longitudinal para una Infancia Saludable (ELISA) were utilized. Parents and teachers completed questionnaires at baseline and at 1-year follow-up. Using three parent-rated psychopathy dimensions as indicators, the authors conducted latent profile analysis and arrived at five latent classes: Control (39.2%), Impulsive-Need for Stimulation (34.8%), Grandiose-Deceitful (16.5%), Callous-Unemotional (6.2%), and Putative Psychopathic Personality (PP, 3.3%). Children in the PP class, overall, engaged in higher levels of concurrent, future, and stable conduct problems and reactive and proactive aggression, and lower levels of prosocial behavior, as rated by parents or teachers. <br><br>FINDINGS also revealed meaningful differences between the remaining four classes. Person-oriented analyses seem to offer a fruitful avenue to identify 3- to 6-year-olds who exhibit a putative psychopathic personality and are at risk for future maladjustment.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-579X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2021_35_538
ID  - ref1
ER  -