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The child behavior checklist dysregulation profile predicts adolescent DSM-5 pathological personality traits 4 years later

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Emotional dysregulation in childhood has been associated with various forms of later psychopathology, although no studies have investigated the personality related adolescent outcomes associated with early emotional dysregulation. The present study uses a typological approach to examine how the child behavior checklist-dysregulation profile (CBCL-DP) predicts DSM-5 pathological personality traits (as measured with the personality inventory for the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5 or PID-5 by Krueger et al. (Psychol Med 2012)) across a time span of 4 years in a sample of 243 children aged 8–14 years (57.2 % girls). The results showed that children assigned to the CBCL-DP class are at risk for elevated scores on a wide range of DSM-5 personality pathology features, including higher scores on hostility, risk taking, deceitfulness, callousness, grandiosity, irresponsibility, impulsivity and manipulativeness. These results are discussed in the context of identifying early manifestations of persistent regulation problems, because of their enduring impact on a child’s personality development.

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  1. Throughout this study, we will use this broad CBCL-DP label as interchangeable with the other labels that have previously been proposed for this specific profile of psychopathology.

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The authors wish to thank Prof. Dr. Robert Althoff and Prof. Dr. Filip De Fruyt for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. The quality of this manuscript improved secondary to the comments of the anonymous reviewers and we thank them for their efforts.

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De Caluwé, E., Decuyper, M. & De Clercq, B. The child behavior checklist dysregulation profile predicts adolescent DSM-5 pathological personality traits 4 years later. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 22, 401–411 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-013-0379-9

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