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Chrysosferidis JR, Burns GL, Becker SP, Beauchaine TP, Servera M. Oppositional Defiant Disorder in the DSM-5: Does the Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier Portend a More Severe Clinical Presentation? Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2023; 51:1037-1050. [PMID: 36947316 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01052-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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This study investigated whether oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with the DSM-5 limited prosocial emotions (LPE) specifier marks a more severe clinical presentation than ODD alone. Mothers, fathers, and teachers of 2,142 Spanish children (49.49% girls; ages 8 to 13 years) completed measures of ODD, LPE, ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), ADHD-inattention (IN), cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), anxiety, depression, social impairment, academic impairment, and peer rejection (teacher only measure). Scores greater or less than 1.50 SDs above the ODD and LPE means were used to create ODD-only (5.89-7.22% of the sample, depending on informant), LPE-only (7.61-8.25%), ODD + LPE (1.69-2.20%), and comparison groups (82.96-84.68%) for each source. For all three sources, the LPE-only group scored higher than the comparison group on social impairment, peer rejection, and academic impairment but did not differ significantly on anxiety. Although the ODD-only and ODD + LPE groups scored higher than the LPE-only group on all symptom and most impairment dimensions, the ODD + LPE group did not show a consistent pattern of higher scores than the ODD-only group. There were no differences on mother ratings, and higher scores for the ODD + LPE group emerged on only three of seven father-report measures (depression, CDS, and ADHD-IN) and three of eight teacher-report measures (peer rejection, social impairment, and academic impairment). Limited differences between the ODD + LPE and ODD-only groups raise questions about the usefulness of LPE as a severity specifier for ODD among children. Future studies need to address this issue with adolescents and clinical samples.
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-4820, USA.
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, 45267, USA
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- Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122, Palma, Illes Balears, Spain
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Castagna PJ, Waschbusch DA. Multi-Informant Ratings of Childhood Limited Prosocial Emotions: Mother, Father, and Teacher Perspectives. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL FOR THE SOCIETY OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, DIVISION 53 2023; 52:119-133. [PMID: 36473070 PMCID: PMC9898204 DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2022.2151452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Modest agreement between mothers', fathers', and teachers' reports of child psychopathology can cause diagnostic ambiguity. Despite this, there is little research on informant perspectives of youth's limited prosocial emotions (LPEs). We examined the relationship between mother-, father-, and teacher-reported LPE in a clinical sample of elementary school-aged children. METHOD The sample included 207 primarily Caucasian (n = 175, 84.5%) children (136 boys; 65.7%) aged 6-13 years (M = 8.35, SD = 2.04) referred to an outpatient child diagnostic clinic focused on externalizing problems. We report the percentage of youth meeting LPE criteria as a function of informant perspective(s). Utilizing standard scores, we report distributions of informant dyads in agreement/disagreement regarding child LPE, followed up by polynomial regressions to further interrogate the relationship between mother-, father-, and teacher-reported LPE as it relates to conduct problems (CPs). RESULTS The prevalence of child LPE was approximately twice as large when compared to those reported in community samples; mothers and fathers generally agreed on their child's LPE symptoms (55% agreement). Higher-order nonlinear interactions between mothers and fathers, as well as parents and teachers, emerged; discrepancies between informants, characterized by low levels of LPE reported by the child's mother, were predictive of youth at the highest risk for CPs. CONCLUSIONS Our findings emphasize the clinical utility of gathering multiple reports of LPE when serious CPs are suspected. It may be beneficial for clinicians to give significant consideration to teacher reported LPE when interpreting multiple-informant reports of LPE.
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- Peter J. Castagna
- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Hershey, PA, USA
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de la Peña FR, Rosetti MF, Palacio JD, Palacios-Cruz L, Ulloa RE. Limited Prosocial Emotions in a Clinical Population of Children and Adolescents: Proposal for Core and Ancillary Characteristics. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE 2022; 67:289-294. [PMID: 33787362 PMCID: PMC9099082 DOI: 10.1177/07067437211004893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Limited prosocial emotions (LPE) has been recently incorporated into international classifications as a specifier for conduct disorder in the DSM-5 and for all disruptive behavioural disorders in the ICD-11. The aims of the current work were to determine (a) the accuracy of each of the characteristics used to assess the LPE specifier and (b) whether the manner in which symptoms group together supports the idea of LPE having core characteristics. METHOD Trained clinicians conducted interviews and determined LPE characteristics using responses from 74 parent/guardian and child/adolescent participants. RESULTS The distribution of LPE characteristics among those participants with LPE (n = 13) was compared to those with only one LPE characteristic (n = 11). The proposal of callous lack of empathy (CLE) and shallow deficient affect (SDA) as core characteristics was supported by strong associations with the presence of the LPE specifier, larger specificity, and sensitivity indices than those for unconcerned about performance and lack of remorse or guilt, as well as by a robust aggregation in a latent class analysis. CONCLUSIONS CLE and SDA could be considered as core characteristics of LPE in children and adolescents.
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- 42584Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City, Mexico.,61738Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- 161932Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- 42584Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City, Mexico
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- 544147Hospital Psiquiátrico Infantil Dr. Juan N. Navarro, Mexico City, Mexico
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Examining Psychopathic Traits in Children Using the Child Psychopathy Scale - Revised. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 48:251-263. [PMID: 31642029 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-019-00591-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Applying the affective dimension of psychopathy to youth has advanced understanding of conduct problems in youth, leading to suggestions that other aspects of psychopathy may do the same. This was addressed in the present study by examining the structure and validity of psychopathic traits in elementary-age children as rated by mothers and teachers on the Child Psychopathy Scale - Revised (CPS-R). Participants were 222 children (80.2% male; Mage = 8.92), the majority (71.6%) of whom met criteria for both ADHD and conduct problems. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor model consisting of prosocial-empathic (PE), grandiose-manipulative (GM), emotionally volatile (EV), and attentive-planful(AP) factors. The CPS-R demonstrated good criterion validity with well-established measures of child behavior problems and callousness. The EV and AP factors demonstrate incremental validity by moderating the relation between conduct problems and impairment. Latent profiles supported a three-profile solution for mothers and a four-profile solution for teachers, with profiles consisting of one group low, one group moderate, and one high on all measures for both informants, and a fourth group that was high on all measures except CD and limited PE. Profiles differed significantly from each other on callousness and impairment, with limited PE being the best differentiator of youth highest in antisocial behavior based on mother and teacher report. Findings suggest that mothers and teachers may be able to identify children at risk for a more negative trajectory of antisocial behavior, that it is worthwhile to examine multiple psychopathy dimensions (rather than just the affective dimension), and that the CPS-R may be useful to screen for youth who are most likely to display more severe antisocial behavior and impairment.
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Burns GL, Becker SP. Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory Scale Scores With Well-Established Psychopathology and Academic Achievement Measures in Adolescents With ADHD. Assessment 2021; 29:1086-1098. [PMID: 33754837 DOI: 10.1177/10731911211001929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The convergent and discriminant validity of the parent version of the Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI) symptom and impairment scale scores were evaluated with the scale scores from multiple methods including a semistructured diagnostic interview, rating scales, and an academic achievement test. Participants were 82 adolescents (70% male, 78% non-Hispanic White) aged 13 to 17 years (M = 15.01) diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (77% predominantly inattentive presentation) and parents. CABI scale scores showed moderate (rs = .42 to .49) to substantial (rs = .62 to .91) convergent correlations with scores from similar measures. CABI scale scores also showed significant discriminant validity (convergent correlation significantly larger than discriminant correlation) with the scores on the other measures. These findings provide additional support for use of the CABI in research and clinical practice, and copies of the scale and norms are freely available.
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Milledge SV, Cortese S, Thompson M, McEwan F, Rolt M, Meyer B, Sonuga-Barke E, Eisenbarth H. Peer relationships and prosocial behaviour differences across disruptive behaviours. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2019; 28:781-793. [PMID: 30387006 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-018-1249-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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It is unclear if impairments in social functioning and peer relationships significantly differ across common developmental conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), and associated callous-unemotional traits (CU traits). The current study explored sex differences and symptoms of parent- and teacher-reported psychopathology on peer relationships and prosocial behaviour in a sample of 147 referred children and adolescents (aged 5-17 years; 120 m). The results showed that increases in parent-reported ADHD Inattentive symptoms and teacher-reported ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive symptoms, CD, ODD, and CU traits were significantly associated with peer relationship problems across sex. At the same time, teacher-reported symptoms of ODD and both parent- and teacher-reported CU traits were related to difficulties with prosocial behaviour, for both boys and girls, with sex explaining additional variance. Overall, our findings show a differential association of the most common disruptive behaviours to deficits in peer relationships and prosocial behaviour. Moreover, they highlight that different perspectives of behaviour from parents and teachers should be taken into account when assessing social outcomes in disruptive behaviours. Given the questionable separation of conduct problem-related constructs, our findings not only point out the different contribution of those aspects in explaining peer relationships and prosocial behaviour, but furthermore the variance from different informants about those aspects of conduct problems.
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- Sara V Milledge
- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Kings College, London, SE5 9RJ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. .,School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand.
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Longitudinal associations of callous-unemotional and oppositional defiant behaviors over a three-year interval for Spanish children. Dev Psychopathol 2019; 32:481-490. [DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419000221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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AbstractThe objective was to determine the longitudinal associations between callous-unemotional (CU) and oppositional defiant (OD) behaviors from the first to fourth grades for Spanish children. Four possible outcomes were evaluated: (a) CU behaviors in the first grade predict increases in OD behaviors in the fourth grade, controlling for OD behaviors in the first grade; (b) OD behaviors in the first grade predict increases in CU behaviors in the fourth grade, controlling for CU behaviors in the first grade; (c) both unique effects are significant; and (d) neither unique effect is significant. A longitudinal panel model with two latent variables (CU and OD behaviors), three sources (mothers, fathers, teachers), and two occasions (spring of the first and fourth grades) was used to evaluate the four possibilities among 758 (54% boys) first grade and 469 (53% boys) fourth grade Spanish children. For mother-, father-, and teacher-reports, OD behaviors in the first grade predicted increases in CU behaviors in the fourth grade, after controlling for CU behaviors in the first grade, whereas CU behaviors in the first grade did not predict increases in OD behaviors in the fourth grade, after controlling for OD behaviors in the first grade. OD behaviors thus conferred independent vulnerability to increases in CU behaviors 3 years later among young children.
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Burns GL, Becker SP, Geiser C, Leopold DR, Willcutt EG. Are Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Trait- or State-Like Constructs from Prekindergarten to Fourth Grade? JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY 2019; 49:460-468. [PMID: 30985190 DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2019.1567348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The objective was to determine the proportion of trait (consistency across occasions) and occasion-specific variance in sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-inattention (IN), ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom ratings. A single trait factor-multiple state factors model was applied to parent ratings of SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-HI, and ODD symptoms for 978 children (50% female) across prekindergarten (M = 4.90 years), kindergarten (M = 6.27 years), 1st-grade (M = 7.42 years), 2nd-grade (M = 8.45 years), and 4th-grade (M = 10.45 years) assessments. For the prekindergarten assessment, SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-HI, and ODD contained more occasion-specific than trait variance (54%, 64%, 56%, and 55% occasion-specific variance, respectively). In contrast, SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-HI, and ODD contained more trait than occasion-specific variance for the kindergarten through 4th-grade assessments (62%-72%, 65%-68%, 71%-75%, and 60%-69% trait variance, respectively). SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-HI, and ODD are slightly to moderately more state-like than trait-like during the prekindergarten developmental period but are more stable traits than fluctuating states from kindergarten to 4th grade. Findings indicate that, particularly after children start formal schooling, these psychopathology dimensions are primarily stable traits; implications for assessment are discussed.
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- Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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