RT Journal Article
T1 A new measure to assess psychopathic personality in children: the child problematic traits inventory
A1 Colins, Olivier
A1 Andershed, Henrik
A1 Frogner, Louise
A1 López-Romero, Laura
A1 Veen, Violaine
A1 Andershed, Anna-Karin
K1 Assessment
K1 Child Problematic Traits Inventory (CPTI)
K1 Children
K1 Conduct Problems
K1 Psychopathic personality
AB Understanding the development of psychopathic personality from childhood to adulthood is crucial for understanding the development and stability of severe and long-lasting conduct problems and criminal behavior. This paper describes the development of a new teacher rated instrument to assess psychopathic personality from age three to 12, the Child Problematic Traits Inventory (CPTI). The reliability and validity of the CPTI was tested in a Swedish general population sample of 2,056 3- to 5-year-olds (mean age = 3.86; SD = .86; 53 % boys). The CPTI items loaded distinctively on three theoretically proposed factors: a Grandiose-Deceitful Factor, a Callous-Unemotional factor, and an Impulsive-Need for Stimulation factor. The three CPTI factors showed reliability in internal consistency and external validity, in terms of expected correlations with theoretically relevant constructs (e.g., fearlessness). The interaction between the three CPTI factors was a stronger predictor of concurrent conduct problems than any of the three individual CPTI factors, showing that it is important to assess all three factors of the psychopathic personality construct in early childhood. In conclusion, the CPTI seems to reliably and validly assess a constellation of traits that is similar to psychopathic personality as manifested in adolescence and adulthood
PB Springer
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45403
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45403
LA eng
NO Colins, O. F., Andershed, H., Frogner, L., Lopez-Romero, L., Veen, V., & Andershed, A. K. (2014). A New Measure to Assess Psychopathic Personality in Children: The Child Problematic Traits Inventory. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 36(1), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-013-9385-y
NO Henrik Andershed was financed by funds for the Swedish Research Council during the preparation of this manuscript and the SOFIA study was also financed by the Swedish Research Council. We are grateful to Karlstad University and Karlstad municipality for their collaboration in the SOFIA study
DS Minerva
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